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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0143. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.39 x h: 0.21).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded border.
Letters: Second to early third centuries CE lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.045; line 2, 0.04; line 3, 0.03.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE

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

Interpretive

[---]s [---]
[---] aquae ductu[---]
[--- q]uae (sestertiis) CC m(ilibus) n(ummum) a[diectis ---]
decretam [---]

Diplomatic

[---]S[---]
[---]AQUAEDUCTU[---]
[---.]UAE 𐆘 CCMNA[.......---]
DECRETAM[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (line 2) an aqueduct (case unknown)[---] which, with 200,000 sesterces added [---], (something feminine) having been decreed [---]

Commentary

Line 3. Presumably a reference to the munificence of Flavius Tullus; see also 117, line 2-4.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 143, whence IRT, 2009, 143, whence EDH 059119; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

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

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 783 Leica)

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