Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (surviving, w: 0.12 x h: 0.12, no edges).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second century capitals: 0.065.  
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded 
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) 
[·· ? ··leg(at-) ·· ? ··] pr(o) pr(aetore) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ········ ? ··]PRPR[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
leg
</abbr>
<ex>
at
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pr
</abbr>
<ex>
aetore
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··legate·· ? ··] with propraetorian powers [·· ? ··] (case of subject unknown)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 850 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 850 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 908 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 908 Leica)

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