WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0093. Fragmentary honours? for an anonymous

Description: Fragment of a marble panel ( w: 0.13 x h: 0.15, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.075.

Date: First-third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]C A[---]
[---I] IIIu[ir ---]

Diplomatic

[---]CA[---]
[---.]IIIU[..---]

2: A superscript bar shows that one figure is missing at the beginning of the line.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] member of the committee of four [---] (case unknown)

Commentary

IIIIviri are not otherwise recorded at Sabratha, and it may be that this fragment records part of a senatorial career - IIIIvir viarum curandarum.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 93, whence IRT, 2009, 93, whence EDH 059083; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 850 Leica)

   Fig. 2. From left: above 93, unidentified; middle row: unidentified, unidentified, 145; lower row: unidentified, 90, unidentified: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 908 Leica)