Description:
Fragment from the upper part of a marble panel (w: 0.50 x h: 0.75 x d: 0.13), probably part of a sarcophagus front, inscribed within a wreath(die, diam. 0.54), with a flange above and traces of a supporting figure (?) to R. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Third century A.D. capitals: 0.05-0.055. 
Date:
Third century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Found in the Concessione Secchi, 500m. S of the former railway station at Sabratha (map ref. P 833605) 
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) 
D(is) m(anibus)
[·D]omiti
[·· ? ··]simi
[·· ? ··] stop tri stop
5 [·· ? ··]V
[---]
DM
[···]OMITI
[·· ? ··]SIMI
[·· ? ··] stop TRI stop
5[·· ? ··]V
[---]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
is
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
anibus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
D
</supplied>
omiti
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
simi
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<g type="stop" > </g>
tri
<g type="stop" > </g>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig >
u
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" />
</ab>

4, TRI between stops.

Translation:

To the gods below of Domitius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 253)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 253)

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