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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0137. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment of a small grey marble panel (w: 0.19 x h: 0.25 x d: 0.022, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals: line 1-2, 0.05; line 3- 4, 0.045; red paint in letters.

Date: First-second centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]m[---]
[---]em et
[---]esset
[---? honore con]tentus
5 ------

Diplomatic

[---]M[---]
[---]EMET
[---]ESSET
[---?.........]TENTUS
5------

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] satisfied [with the honour---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 137, whence IRT, 2009, 137, whence EDH 059113; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: 137; above, 47, Unidentified; below: 1, 99 :Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXVII.15)