Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.125 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals (?): approx. 0.08.  
Date:
A.D. 222-235 (style of erasure).  
Findspot:
Sabratha: The East Forum Temple: found in the precinct of the temple. 
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) 
[·· ? ··] 〚 ·· ? ·· 〛 [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] 〚p(at-) p(atriae)〛 [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]〚·· ? ··〛[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]〚PP〛[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
at
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
</del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

(The erased name or title of an emperor)[·· ? ··]father of the country[·· ? ··](case unknown)

Commentary:

The distinctive form of erasure by means of continuous horizontal strokes, as in 41, 43 and 44, suggests Severus Alexander.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)

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