72. ?Dedication to anonymous emperor
- Description:
- Fragment, probably from the lower edge, of a marble panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.265).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third centuriy capitals: line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.07; line 3, 0.055.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Antonine Temple (Bartoccini MS notes)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- 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"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erator
</ex>
<num
value="2"
>
II
</num>
c
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
o
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
s
<num
value="12"
>
XII
</num>
qu
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Iacun
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] acclaimed victor twice, consul [? times, holding tribunician power] for the twelfth time [·· ? ··] pools of water [·· ? ··] (case unknown)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 900 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)
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