Description:
Two fragments, one from the top left-hand, and one from the bottom right-hand, corner of a stele of compact grey-brown limestone moulded above and below.a) Surviving: w: 0.32 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.12b) Surviving: w: 0.445 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.12. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Capitals with some Rustic forms, ?Third century A.D. a) 0.075. b) 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) 
a
M(arco) Aemil[io ·· ? ··]
M(arci) fil(io) Q[uir(ina tribu) ·· ? ··]
[---]
b
[·· ? ·· Sabrat]ḥensis publice
a
MAEMIL[····· ? ··]
MFILQ[················ ? ··]
[---]
b
[·· ? ·········]·ENSISPVBLICE
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aemil
<supplied reason="lost" >
io
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arci
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
io
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
<supplied reason="lost" >
uir
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<ex>
ina tribu
</ex>
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Sabrat
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
h
</unclear>
ensis
publice
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

To Marcus Aemilius [·· ? ··], son of Marcus of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 812 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 812 Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 813 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 813 Leica)

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