WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0080. Dedication? to a third century emperor

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.12 x h: 0.11, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.055.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---] max(im)- [---]
[---] VIII i[mp(erator)]- [---]

Diplomatic

[---]MAX[---]
[---]VIIII[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] greatest [---] VIII (probably tribunician power), acclaimed victor [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 80, whence IRT, 2009, 80, whence EDH 059071; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 910 Leica)