126. Fragmentary honours

Description:
Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble panel (w: 1.23 x h: 0.54, when excavated, no edges surviving), re-used in the late IV cent. paving of the Curia; see also 75a. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; now much deteriorated.  
Text:
Impression from one face. 
Letters:
Lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.065; remainder, 0.075. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Re-used in the late IV cent. paving of the Curia. 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini , Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:52. 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:
Pubblication. 
[·· ? ·· fl]aminị [Libe]rị P̣atris p [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] VSVI ·· 5··]um Quint[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] Sabra[th ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·· st] ạtuaṃ [·· ? ··]
5 [·· ? ··] e sta [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]AMIN·[·····]R··ATRISP[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]VSVI·· 5··]VMQVINT[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]SABRA[····· ? ··]
[·· ? ·····]·TVA·[·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··]ESTA[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
fl
</supplied>
<app type="previouslyread" >
amin
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</app>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Libe
</supplied>
<app type="previouslyread" >
r
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</app>
<app >
<unclear reason="" >
P
</unclear>
at
</app>
ris
p
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<orig >
usui
</orig>
<rdg >
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
</rdg>
</app>
<gap reason="lost" extent="5" unit="character" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
u
</app>
m
Quint
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
Sabra
<supplied reason="lost" >
th
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
st
</supplied>
<unclear reason="" >
a
</unclear>
tu
<app type="previouslyread" >
a
<unclear reason="" >
m
</unclear>
</app>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
e
</app>
<app type="previouslyread" >
sta
</app>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Highlighted letters could be read by Bartoccini but were no longer visible in 1952.

Translation:

To [·· ? ··] flamen (priest) of Liber Pater [·· ? ··] Quintus (case unknown) [·· ? ··] Sabratha (or the Sabrathans) [·· ? ··set up] a statue [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VI.10)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VI.10)

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