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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0053. Dedication to Tacitus

Description: Fragment from the upper left-hand corner of a dark grey marble panel (w: 0.175 x h: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on the panel face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.06.

Date: CE 275-276 (reign)

Findspot: Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

Imp(erator)- [Caes(ar)- M(arc)- Claudi-]
Taci[t]- [Pi- Feli- Aug(ust)-]
[------]

Diplomatic

IMP[...........]
TACI[..........]
[------]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

Emperor [Caesar Marcus Claudius] Tacitus [Pius Felix Augustus---] ( case unknown)

Commentary

Augustus 275-278.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 53, whence IRT, 2009, 53, whence EDH 059046; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 53, 148; below: 151: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 906 Leica)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above, 53, 148; below: 151: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 823 Leica)