81. ?Dedication to a third century emperor
- Description:
- Fragment of a panel of white marble ( w: 0.20 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Third century capitals: 0.06.
- 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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
l
</unclear>
e
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Germ
</supplied>
anico
<unclear
reason=""
>
m
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
aximo
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
tr
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ibunicia
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
potestate
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] greatest victor in Germany, [·· ? ··] holding tribunician [power·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 903 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 822 Leica)
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