71. ?Dedication to an anonymous emperor
- Description:
- Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.06), a pair perhaps with 65, which it closely resembles.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.06; lines 2-3, 0.055.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- 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="1"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
G
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rmanic
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
po
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ntif
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maxim
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
O
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··]victor in Germany [·· ? ··chief] priest [·· ? ··] (case unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXVII.7)
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