183. Fragmentary ?honours
- Description:
- Fragment of a marble base (w: 0.10 x h: 0.105 x d: 0.06, no edges and no reverse face).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Third to fourth century capitals: 0.05.
- Date:
- Third to fourth centuries (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Found among surface debris on the N side of the East Forum Temple
- 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
<unclear
reason=""
>
i
</unclear>
a
<unclear
reason=""
>
</orig>
m
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
>
ita
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
2, From the nature of the fragment and style of lettering, probably an honorary inscription, recording the subject's virtues ... ? ob merita ...
Translation:
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXXVII.18)
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