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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0107. Fragmentary honours? for a third/fourth century ?praeses

Description: Three joining fragments of a marble panel (w: 0.24 x h: 0.40, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third to fourth centuries CE capitals: 0.055.

Date: Third to fourth centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[...]
[---]uoca[---]
[---] praes[idi?---]
[---Sabrathe?]ṇse[s---]
5 [---]r ((leaf)) [---]

Diplomatic

[···]
[---]UOCA[---]
[---]PRAES[...---]
[---........].SE[.---]
5[---]R [---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(line 2) ? governor [of the province of Tripolitania ---] ? the people of Sabratha [---] excellent man (i.e. of equestrian status )[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 107, whence IRT, 2009, 107, whence EDH 059094; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.26)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 833 Leica)