Description: Moulded base of marble
(w:
0.75 x h:
1.37 × unknown depth).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.33 x h:
0.67).
Letters: Second century lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.08.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
Capitolium: found with associated bust.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum (2010)
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To Jupiter; Africanus (scil. gave and dedicated this)
Commentary
In 1952 the editors reported that the monument had been lent from Sabratha Museum to the Mostra Coloniale at Naples and not yet been returned.
Africanus also appears in 4 line 2.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1925a, 284 and fig. 3, whence AE 1925.100, IRT, 1952 9; whence IRT, 2009 9; whence EDH 0258344; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B 1237)
Fig. 2. Base (Roueché, 2010: DSCN1432)