139. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Two fragments of a marble panel (together, approx. w: 0.39 x h: 0.23, no edges surviving).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Second to third century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.065; l. 2, 0.045; l. 3, 0.035.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
mul
</supplied>
tas
libera
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
litates
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
sua
pecunia
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
t
qu
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
driga
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
m
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
/>
2, The letter before S appears to be C, G or O.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] many liberalities [·· ? ··] at his own expense [·· ? ··] a four-horse chariot [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr CS 218 (part))
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 785 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)
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