73. ?Dedication to the wife of a second/third century emperor

Description:
Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble panel ( w: 0.24 x h: 0.29). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Mannered late second to early third century lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.06; lines 3-4, 0.045. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries 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) 
[---]
2c̣oṇi[ugi lmp(eratoris) Caes(aris) ·· ? ··]
Germ[anici ·· ? ··]
trib(unicia) p[ot(estate) ·· ? ··]
5ob pr[·· ? ··]
[---]
2·O·I[··············· ? ··]
GERM[········ ? ··]
TRIBP[····· ? ··]
5OBPR[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<unclear reason="" >
c
</unclear>
o
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
i
<supplied reason="lost" >
ugi
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
lmp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
aris
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
Germ
<supplied reason="lost" >
anici
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
ot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
ob
pr
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

5, The next letter begins with a vertical stroke; perhaps ob priuilegia ...

Translation:

[To·· ? ··] wife [of Emperor Caesar·· ? ··] victor in Germany, [·· ? ··] holding tribunician power [for the ? time·· ? ··] ? (on account) of privileges (given) [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 762 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 762 Leica)

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