WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0106. Fragmentary honours? for a third century officialine

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.24, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century century CE capitals: line 2, 0.055; line 3-4, 0.05.

Date: Third century century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]SIIḶ[---]
[---] u(ir)- p(erfectissim)- [---]
[--- Sabra]tha [---]
[---]ḶOCU[---]

Diplomatic

[---]SII.[---]
[---]UP[---]
[---.....]THA[---]
[---].OCU[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(line 2)[---], excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status )[---the city of] Sabratha

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 106, whence IRT, 2009, 106, whence EDH 059093; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. 106 in upper left corner: others unidentified; Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 834 Leica)