896. Fragmentary ?building inscription under Gordian

Description:
Fragment from the lower part of an inscription 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
No description 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Wadi Zemzem: Gheriat el-Garbia (map ref. A 5798) seen in 1914, in the hall of an Arab house. Not seen again.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1914) 
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 from a photograph of a drawing (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[·· ? ··]o pio fe[lici ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] XX G stop PR stop PỊ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]G Gordian[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] uetusta[te ·· ? ··]
5 [·· ? ··]MBELLDISSỊ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ATSACOLLEP̣[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]o restituer[unt ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]O LACSCVRN[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OPIOFE[······· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]XXG stop PR stop P·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]GGORDIAN[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VETVSTA[····· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··]MBELLDISS·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ATSACOLLE·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ORESTITVER[······ ? ··]
[·· ? ··]OLACSCVRN[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
pio
fe
<supplied reason="lost" >
lici
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num >
XX
</num>
<orig >
g
</orig>
<g type="stop" > </g>
<orig >
pr
</orig>
<g type="stop" > </g>
<orig >
p
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
G
</orig>
Gordian
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
uetusta
<supplied reason="lost" >
te
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
mbelldiss
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
atsacolle
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
o
restituer
<supplied reason="lost" >
unt
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
o
</orig>
<orig >
lacscurn
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] Pius Felix Augustus [·· ? ··] Gordian (case not known) [·· ? ··] with age [·· ? ··] they restored [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 617)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 617)

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