Description: Two fragments (w:
0.20 x h:
0.13 x d:
0.025 and
w:
0.31 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.025)
of a white marble
balustrade panel.
Text: Inscribed on the upper fascia, with bead-and-reel moulding below
(die, h:
0.095).
Letters: Second to third century capitals: 0.08.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. [---]adlected [---] (case unknown)
b. [---] he saw to its construction [---]
Commentary
The quality of the monument suggests that the subject was adlected into the Senate rather than into the municipal ordo.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 92, whence IRT, 2009, 92, whence EDH 059082; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
