Description: Fragment from the lower part of a small, white marble
panel
(w:
0.09 x h:
0.14 x d:
0.02; no edges surviving,
but there is a space after 1. 3);
re-used at a later date for an inscription cut in third century capitals, of which the letters
[...]TT[...] alone survive.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1, 0.05; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.03.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio I, Capitolium,
found in the vaults. When excavated by Bartoccini, these vaults were found to contain a large series of
architectural fragments, inscriptions, and burnt debris, deposited almost certainly when
the Forum area was cleared after the disastrous sack of the city by the Austuriani,
c. 363-5 (see IRT 1952, introduction). Other inscriptions in the series are:
3, 10,
11, 14,
17, 19,
20, 24,
25, 26, 28,
30, 32,
34,38, 39,
42, 44,
48, 50,
51, 52,
54, 62,
64, 65, 66,
67, 70,
71, 73, 75,
76, 77,
82, 84, 87,
88, 92,
95, 96,
97, 99,
113, 115,
116, 117,
128, 131,
133, 137,
139, 140,
141, 143, 147,
149, 156,
160, 167,
168, 172,
175, 190.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
There may be a reference to the god Apollo, or part of a personal name (e.g. Apollinaris).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952 1, whence IRT, 2009 1, whence EDH 059004; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
