888. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description:
Parts of two architrave blocks (h: 0.24)  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Late second to early third century A.D. capitals: 0.055.  
Date:
Late second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering) 
Findspot:
Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Gasr Tininai (map ref. Q 8500), Both presumably from the temple, a) seems now to be lost 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
b) is now at Beni Ulid. 
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, VIII:22666; Petrignani, Il Sahara Tripolitano (Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) Roma, 1923, ill. opp. p. 17. 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:
a: previous publications; b: transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a
[·· ? ··]x temp(lum) d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) [·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··] T(itus) Fl(auius) Q(uirina tribu) Capito Io [·· ? ··]
a
[·· ? ··]XTEMPDSP[·· ? ··]
b
[·· ? ··]TFLQCAPITOIO[·· ? ··]
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
x
<expan>
<abbr>
temp
</abbr>
<ex>
lum
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
e
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<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" />
<expan>
<abbr>
T
</abbr>
<ex>
itus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uirina tribu
</ex>
</expan>
Capito
<app type="previouslyread" >
Io
</app>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>
</div>

b.1, The letters IO, illustrated by Petrignani, are now lost.

Translation:

(b followed by a) Titus Flavius Capito Io[·· ? ··] of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [built] the temple at his own expense [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.IV.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.IV.30)

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