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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0112. Fragmentary honours for Marcus Aemilius

Description: Two fragments, one from the top left-hand, and one from the bottom right-hand, corner of a stele of compact grey-brown limestone moulded above and below.a) Surviving: w: 0.32 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.12b) Surviving: w: 0.445 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.12.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Capitals with some Rustic forms, ?Third century CEa) 0.075.b) 0.055.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
M(arco) Aemil[io ---]
M(arci) fil(io) Q[uir(ina tribu) ---]
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b
[--- Sabrat]ḥensis publice

Diplomatic

a
MAEMIL[..---]
MFILQ[...---]
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b
[---......].ENSISPUBLICE

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Marcus Aemilius [---], son of Marcus of the Roman voting tribe Quirina [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 112, whence IRT, 2009, 112, whence EDH 059098; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 812 Leica)

   Fig. 2. b: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 813 Leica)