85. Dedication to third/fourth century emperor
- Description:
- Upper left-hand corner of a panel (w: 0.44 x h: 0.44) of cream marble,
- Text:
- Inscribed on the panel face; 186 was inscribed on the reverse face.
- Letters:
- Third to fourth centuries capitals: line 1, 0.045; line 2, 0.055; lines 3 and 4, 0.05.
- Date:
- Third to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Amphitheatre, in the underground corridor which bisects the arena (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"
/>
Restitutor
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
humani
gen
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
eris
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
ac
super
omn
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
es
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
indul
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
gentissimo
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
principi
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
b
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
omino
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ostro
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
To the restorer [·· ? ··] of the human race [·· ? ··] and above all (others)[·· ? ··] most indulgent emperor [·· ? ··], our lord, [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.23)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 820 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.19)
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