WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0073. Dedication? to the wife of a second/third century emperor

Description: Fragment from the left-hand edge of a marble panel ( w: 0.24 x h: 0.29).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Mannered late second to early third century lapidary capitals: lines 1-2, 0.06; lines 3-4, 0.045.

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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c̣oṇi[ugi Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) ---]
Germ[anici ---]
trib(unicia) p[ot(estate) ---]
5ob pr[---]-

Diplomatic

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.O.I[............---]
GERM[.....---]
TRIBP[..---]
5OBPR[---]

5: The next letter begins with a vertical stroke; perhaps ob priuilegia ...

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[To---] wife [of Emperor Caesar---] victor in Germany, [---] holding tribunician power [for the ? time---] ? (scil. on account) of privileges (scil. given) [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 73, whence IRT, 2009, 73, whence EDH 059064; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: Unidentified, 73, Unidentified; Below: 32: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 762 Leica)