WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0071. Dedication? to an anonymous emperor

Description: Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.06), a pair perhaps with 65, which it closely resembles.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century capitals: line 1, 0.06; lines 2-3, 0.055.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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Gẹ[rmanic]- [---]
po[ntif]- [maxim]- [---]
O[---]

Diplomatic

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G.[......---]
PO[.........---]
O[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---]victor in Germany [---chief] priest [---] (case unknown)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 71, whence IRT, 2009, 71, whence EDH 059062; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: above, 714, 190; below: 82; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXVII.7)