Description: Top right-hand corner of a marble
panel
(w:
0.55 x h:
0.62).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.08-0.07.
Date: CE 230 or CE 235 (titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults;
see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[To Emperor Caesar] Marcus Aurelius [Severus] Alexander [Pius Felix] Augustus, our [lord], chief priest, holding [tribunician] power for the ninth time [---]
Commentary
Line 6. trib. pot. VIIII: 10 Dec. 229-9 Dec. 230, but XIIII is a possible reading, between 10 Dec. 234 and Alexander's death in March 235.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 42, whence IRT, 2009, 42, whence EDH 059036; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 761 Leica)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 761 Leica)