Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.12 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).  
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century capitals: 0.055.  
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) 
[·· ? ··] max(im-) [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] VIII i[mp(erator-) ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]MAX[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VIIII[····· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
im
</ex>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<abbr>
mp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] greatest [·· ? ··] VIII (probably tribunician power), acclaimed victor [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 910 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 910 Leica)

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