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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0068. Fragment from imperial titulature

Description: Fragment of a marble monumental panel (w: 0.43 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.045, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 1. 1, 0.15.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering, names)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio II, Antonine Temple
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum, inv. no. 215.

Interpretive

[---]o Aug(usto) [---]
[--- diui Anto]nini [---]

Diplomatic

[---]OAUG[---]
[---........]NINI[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] Augustus [--- . . . (descendant) of deified] Antoninus [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 68, whence IRT, 2009, 68, whence EDH 059059; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Upper left, with four unidentified fragments: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXVII.19)