Description:
The upper right-hand corner of a block of sandstone (w: 0.46 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.27) from a monumental inscription, formerly stuccoed.  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: surviving height 0.205, originally c.0.25.  
Date:
Unknown.  
Findspot:
Sabratha: East Forum Temple. Found in the precinct, to which it probably belongs.  
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) 
[·· ? ··]G̣ III [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·III[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
g
</unclear>
</orig>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

G (or C), rather than S, is the probable reading; perhaps... desig(nat-) III...

Translation:

(Perhaps) [·· ? ··] designated (consul) for the third time [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.17)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.17)

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