WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0145. Fragmentary honours?

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.13 x h: 0.08 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third century CE capitals: 0.035.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]ROẠ[---]
[---]XII lac[us ---]

Diplomatic

[---]RO.[---]
[---]XIILAC[..---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] twelve pools [---]

Commentary

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

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 145, whence IRT, 2009, 145, whence EDH 059121; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 850 Leica)

   Fig. 2. From left: above 93, unidentified; middle row: unidentified, unidentified, 145; lower row: unidentified, 90, unidentified: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 908 Leica)