Description:
Fragment from right-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.02). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century A.D. capitals: 0.05. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]os
[·· ? ··] u(ir-) p(erfectissim-)
[·· ? ··]ṇat
[---]
[·· ? ··]OS
[·· ? ··]VP
[·· ? ··]·AT
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
os
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
ir
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
erfectissim
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
n
</unclear>
at
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··], excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status )[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.21)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XVIII.21)

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