Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.13 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third century A.D. capitals: 0.035. 
Date:
Second to third centuries 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) 
[·· ? ··]ROẠ[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]XII lac[us ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]RO·[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]XIILAC[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
ro
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="12" >
XII
</num>
lac
<supplied reason="lost" >
us
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] twelve pools [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

l. 2. Perhaps a reference to the munificence of Flavius Tullus; see also 117, ll. 2-4.

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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