853. Fragment
- Description:
- Two fragments of a limestone block (h: 0.68)
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata; there is a rosette in the right-hand, surviving ansa.
- Letters:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. capitals: ll. 1-2, 0.09; ll. 3-4, 0.085.
- Date:
- Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Found at Henscir el-Abiar (between Bir el-Hamudia and Got et-Turchi, in the area of Bir Silin, map ref. M 978092)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Municipio at Zliten.
- 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>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
orum
Geta
et
Ro
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ae
et
Ce
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason=""
>
a
</unclear>
Domitius
C
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
et
Cas
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
ana
quae
e
<unclear
reason=""
>
t
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
gyddus
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
es
filis
suis
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
simis
</ab>
2, The letter following C begins with an upright stroke.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] of (genitive plural) Geta (nominative) and Ro[·· ? ··] (word in genitive or dative, possibly feminine) and Ce[·· ? ··] Domitius (nominative) C[·· ? ··] and Cas[·· ? ··]ana who (feminine) also [·· ? ··?Nam]gyddus [·· ? ··] for their most [?dutiful] sons.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 993)
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