11. Dedication to Mithras (?)
- Description:
- The top right-hand corner of a marble panel (w: 0.37 x h: 0.40 x d: 0.02).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.06.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<abbr>
S
</abbr>
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
rino
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
nuicto
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
Perhaps [D(eo)] s(ancto) M(ithrae); d(is) s(acrum) m(anibus) is recorded, see CIL VIII, 3828; but in the archaeological context a tombstone is improbable.
Translation:
To the sacred [god] (or) to the [god], the sun, Mithras, [·· ? ··] unconquered [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.3)
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