WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0169. Fragment

Description: panel (w: 1.01 x h: 0.53 x d: 0.17) of grey limestone, burned and badly damaged.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded border (die, w: 0.87 x h: 0.43).
Letters: Third century CE capitals: line 1, 0.07; line 2, 0.065; line 3, 0.055.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Basilica, in the room immediately east of the early south exedra.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

L(ucio) C̣[c. 5]ỊỌ [c. 9]nio
[c. 8 - 9]N[---]
[c. 5 - 6]nilius [c. 12]ịṭ[---]
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Diplomatic

L.[·····]..[·········]NIO
[c. 8 - 9]N[---]
[c. 5 - 6]NILIUS[············]..[---]
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English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

To Lucius C[---]nius [---]nilius [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 169, whence IRT, 2009, 169, whence EDH 059145; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 792 Leica)

   Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.39)