WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0012. Votive offering to Silvanus

Description: Left-hand side of a small marble panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.14).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face
Letters: Irregular capitals: 0.015.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio II; found in the street behind the Antonine Temple (insula 4/10)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

Domino Siluạ[no ---]
Aemilius Sa[---]
uot(um) [soluit ---]

Diplomatic

DOMINOSILU.[..---]
AEMILIUSSA[---]
UOT[......---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To the Lord Silvanus [---] Aemilius Sa[--- paid] his [Uow]

Bibliography: Caputo, 1950, 26, note 2, whence AE, 1950.147; IRT, 1952 12, whence IRT, 2009 12, whence EDH 021886; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Unidentified, 12: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.28)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 833 Leica)