6. Dedication of statue in the temple of the Genius of the Colonia

Description:
Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble block (inscribed surface, w: 0.42 x h: 0.42). 
Text:
The inscribed face is pierced with a square hole approx. in the centre of line 3; and lines 4 ff. have been erased. 
Letters:
Local second to third century capitals: 0.035. 
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: The Justinian church: found re-used face-downwards as a column base, one of a series. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
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) 
[---]
2eius sta[t]uam decr[etam publice honore]
conten[t]us s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit) pra[·· ? ··]
osten[ - - - ]A[ - - - ]A in templ(o) G(enii) Co[l](oniae) [·· ? ··]
5〚[---]〛
[---]
2EIVSSTA[··]VAMDECR[·············]
CONTEN[··]VSSPPPRA[·· ? ··]
OSTEN[ - - - ]A[ - - - ]AINTEMPLGCO[··][·· ? ··]
5〚[---]〛
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
eius
sta
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
uam
decr
<supplied reason="lost" >
etam
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
publice
honore
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
conten
<supplied reason="lost" >
t
</supplied>
us
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ua
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
ecunia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
osuit
</ex>
</expan>
pra
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
osten
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" extentmax="2" />
<orig >
a
</orig>
in
<expan>
<abbr>
templ
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
G
</abbr>
<ex>
enii
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Co
<supplied reason="lost" >
l
</supplied>
</abbr>
<ex>
oniae
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
</del>
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] set up the statue of (person previously named) which had been publicly decreed; (but) satisfied with the honours, he/she (did so) at his/her own expense [·· ? ··] in the temple of the Genius of the Colony [·· ? ··] (a further line is erased)

Commentary:

No comment

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.25)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.VII.25)

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