16. Dedication to ?Flavian emperor
- Description:
- Sandstone entablature, formerly stuccoed.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the frieze, now badly eroded.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: approx. 0.22.
- Date:
- Flavian (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Temple of Isis: from the surrounding portico.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
esp
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Possibly: [·· ? ··]Vespasian[·· ? ··]; see 15 , from the same site.
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary:
Perhaps from the name Vespasian. There are other possibilities, cf. respublica = republic, public affairs
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXVII.9)
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