Description: Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble
block (inscribed surface,
w:
0.42 x h:
0.42).
Text: The inscribed face is pierced with a square hole approx. in the centre of line 3; and lines 4 ff. have been erased.
Letters: Local second to third century capitals: 0.035.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Regio I, in
the Justinian church: found re-used face-downwards as a column base, one of a series.
Original location: Unknown: apparently Temple of the Genius of the Colonia
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1947)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] set up the statue of (person previously named) which had been publicly decreed; (scil. but) satisfied with the honours, he/she (scil. did so) at his/her own expense [---] in the temple of the Genius of the Colony [---] (a further line is erased)
Bibliography: IRT, 1952 6, whence IRT, 2009 6, whence EDH 059007; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.25)