188. Fragments

Description:
Three fragments from a panel of coarse grey limestone,inscribed within a moulded border. a) Probably from the top, w: 0.08 x h: 0.06 x d: 0.035. b) w: 0.13 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.035, no edges surviving. c) The lower right-hand corner: w: 0.18 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.035. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border. 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. capitals: 0.025. a) 0.04. b) 0.02. c) 0.025. 
Date:
Fourth 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) 
a
[·· ? ··]im[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]nione et d[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VSS[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]ỊỊOSṂṆN
[·· ? ··]iano in p
[·· ? ··]unt
a
[·· ? ··]IM[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]NIONEETD[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VSS[·· ? ··]
c
[·· ? ··]··OS··N
[·· ? ··]IANOINP
[·· ? ··]VNT
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
im
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
nione
et
d
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
uss
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
ii
</unclear>
os
<unclear reason="" >
mn
</unclear>
n
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
iano
in
p
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
unt
</ab>
</div>

c.1, Clearly a ligature, but it is uncertain whether MN or NM is intended.

Translation:

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 807 Leica (part))
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 807 Leica (part))
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 911 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 911 Leica)

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