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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0144. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment from the right-hand edge of a marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.19 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century CE capitals: 0.04.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Found in the Theatre Road.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum, inv. no. 157.

Interpretive

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[---]s quas
[--- aqua]e duct(?)-
[--- pec]unia
5 ------

Diplomatic

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[---]SQUAS
[---....]EDUCT
[---...]UNIA
5------

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] (feminine) things which (accusative case)[---] aqueduct (case unknown)[---] with money [---]

Commentary

Line 3. Perhaps see 117, line 2-4.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 144, whence IRT, 2009, 144, whence EDH 059120; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, 94, 150, 138, 144; Below, 181, unidentified, 105; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.21)