Description:
Fragment of a marble base (w: 0.10 x h: 0.105 x d: 0.06, no edges and no reverse face). 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
Third to fourth century capitals: 0.05. 
Date:
Third to fourth centuries (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Found among surface debris on the N side of the East Forum Temple 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum. 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[·· ? ··] ỊAṂ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ITA[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·A·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ITA[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
a
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ita
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

2, From the nature of the fragment and style of lettering, probably an honorary inscription, recording the subject's virtues ... ? ob merita ...

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)

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