WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0086. Dedication? to third/fourth century emperor

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.15, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third to fourth centuries capitals: 0.06.

Date: Third to fourth centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]ỊLỊ [---]
[---] Pio Fe[lici ---]

Diplomatic

[---].L.[---]
[---]PIOFE[....---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To [---] Pius, Felix, [---]

Commentary

line 1 perhaps contained a Roman nomen ending -ilius.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 86, whence IRT, 2009, 86, whence EDH 059077; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above 86, 184; Below: 89; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 901 Leica)

   Fig. 2. From left: Above 86, 184; Below: 89; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 819 Leica)