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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0139. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Two fragments of a marble panel (together, approx. w: 0.39 x h: 0.23, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.065; line 2, 0.045; line 3, 0.035.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[--- mul]tas libera[litates ---]
[---] sua pecunia [---]
[---]t qu[a]driga[m ---]
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Diplomatic

[---...]TASLIBERA[.......---]
[---]SUAPECUNIA[---]
[---]TQU[.]DRIGA[.---]
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2: The letter before S appears to be C, G or O.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] many liberalities [---] at his own expense [---] a four-horse chariot [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 139, whence IRT, 2009, 139, whence EDH 059115; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr CS 218 (part))

   Fig. 2. From left: 139, 76: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 785 Leica)

   Fig. 3. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 218)