192. Christian dedication

Description:
Small white marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.02) containing Α tau-rho Ω in a circular frame, set within an upright rectangular panel, and inscribed above and below in low relief. 
Text:
Inscribed above and below in low relief. 
Letters:
0.035; uncial D. 
Date:
No indication  
Findspot:
Sabratha: From the Justinian church 
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) 
S(an)c(tu)s
d(eu)s
SCS
DS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
S
</abbr>
<ex>
an
</ex>
<abbr>
c
</abbr>
<ex>
tu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
eu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Holy God.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 165)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 165)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.S.284)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.S.284)

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