79. ?Dedication to a third century emperor
- Description:
- Two fragments, probably but not certainly from the same panel of cream marble ( w: 0.15 x h: 0.12 and w: 0.11 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century lapidary capitals: a) 0.06; b) 0.045.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
- 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)
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
o
max
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
imo
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
o
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
o max
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
imo
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
a. [·· ? ··] Augustus [·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··] (case unknown); b. To [·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 909 Leica)
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