WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0140. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.32 x h: 0.18, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.045; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.03.

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

[---]ịṭ ut usurị[s ---]
[---]entur big[a]m [---]
[---] Ị octau[---]
[---][---]

Diplomatic

[---]..UTUSUR.[.---]
[---]ENTURBIG[.]M[---]
[---].OCTAU[---]
[---].[---]

4: Or B or R.

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

.[---] in order that from the interest [---] they should [erect] a two-horse chariot [---] ? eighth [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 140, whence IRT, 2009, 140, whence EDH 059116; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 786 Leica)