Description: Fragment of a marble
panel
(w:
0.19 x h:
0.125 x d:
0.03, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Lapidary capitals (?): approx. 0.08.
Date: CE 222-235 (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio II,
The East Forum Temple: found in the precinct of the temple.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(The erased name or title of an emperor)[---]father of the country[---](case unknown)
Commentary
The distinctive form of erasure by means of continuous horizontal strokes, as in 41, 43 and 44, suggests Severus Alexander.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 45, whence IRT, 2009, 45, whence EDH 059038; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
