Description:
Moulded base of marble (w: 0.75 x h: 1.37 × unknown depth).  
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.67). 
Letters:
Second century lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.08. 
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Capitolium: found with associated bust. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lent from Sabratha Museum to the Mostra Coloniale at Naples and not yet returned (as of 1952). Not seen. 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 I:284 and fig. 3; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1925:100. 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:
Previous publications 
Ioui
Africanus
IOVI
AFRICANVS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ioui
<lb n="2" />
Africanus
</ab>

Translation:

To Jupiter; Africanus (gave and dedicated this)

Commentary:

Africanus also appears in 4 line 2.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1237)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1237)

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