WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0142. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Two fragments, one from the top, the other from the bottom, of a panel of white marble.
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border
Letters: Second to third century CE capitals: 0.05.a) Upper edge, 0.155 0.11 .b) Lower edge, 0.40 0.185 .

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

a
[---][---]
b
[---]rauit [---]
[--- editi]one munerum [---]

Diplomatic

a
[---].[---]
b
[---]RAUIT[---]
[---.....]ONEMUNERUM[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

b: [---] by giving of public games [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 142, whence IRT, 2009, 142, whence EDH 059118; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Above: Two fragments of 142, with an unidentified fragment; below, from left, Unidentified, 72: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 821 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 899 Leica)