Description:
Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving). 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Second to third century A.D. lapidary capitals: l. 1, 0.045; l. 2, 0.04; l.3, 0.03. 
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) 
[·· ? ··]ịṭ ut usurị[s ·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]entur big[a]m [·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··] Ị octau[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]p̣[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]··VTVSVR·[···· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]ENTVRBIG[··]M[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·OCTAV[·· ? ··]
[·· ? ··]·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
<unclear reason="" >
t
</unclear>
ut
usur
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
s
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
entur
big
<supplied reason="lost" >
a
</supplied>
m
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
</orig>
octau
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="" >
p
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

4, Or B or R.

Translation:

.[·· ? ··] in order that from the interest [·· ? ··] they should [erect] a two-horse chariot [·· ? ··] ? eighth [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 786 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 786 Leica)

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