84. ?Dedication to third century emperor(s)
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.13, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the reverse face of a moulded panel.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals, with traces of red paint: 0.06.
- Date:
- Third century 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="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Caesa
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
r
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
nn
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Caesar (case unknown) [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Perhaps Caesares in view of the duplicated N in l. 2, which probably indicates two (or more) Caesars.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXVII.16)
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