WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0079. Dedication? to a third century emperor

Description: Two fragments, probably but not certainly from the same panel of cream marble (w: 0.15 x h: 0.12 and w: 0.11 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century lapidary capitals: a) 0.06; b) 0.045.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[---] Aug(usto) [---]
[---]o max[imo ---]
b
[---] O [---]
[---]o max[imo ---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]AUG[---]
[---]OMAX[...---]
b
[---]O[---]
[---]OMAX[...---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(a): [---] Augustus [---] greatest [---] (case unknown); (b): To [---] greatest [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 79, whence IRT, 2009, 79, whence EDH 059070; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 909 Leica)