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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0133. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.33).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 2-3, 0.065; line 4, 0.055.

Date: First-third centuries CE

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---][---]
[---]USFRU[---]
[--- s]ummae h[onorariae ---]
[---]unt ex (sestertiis) [---]

Diplomatic

[---].[---]
[---]USFRU[---]
[---.]UMMAEH[.........---]
[---]UNTEX 𐆘 [---]

1: The reading seems certain. Presumably ... ex eius fructibus ..., or a mistake for usufruct...

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---]? benefit (case unknown)[---] of the sum paid for the office [---] they [---] from [---] sesterces [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 133, whence IRT, 2009, 133, whence EDH 059109; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 780 Leica)

   Fig. 2. From left: 133, 95, lines 1-4, 4-8 (right side); Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 779 Leica)