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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0178. Fragment

Description: Fragment (w: 0.64 x h: 0.37) from the right-hand side of a marble panel.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving faces.
Letters: Third century CE capitals: line 1, decapitated; line 2-3, 0.08; line4, 0.065.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III, Church III, (insula 4), re-used in the pavement of the south aisle.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]o iussit
[---]ụt item ob
[---]X̣VIIII partium
[---]dem testamẹṇ[to]

Diplomatic

[---]OIUSSIT
[---].TITEMOB
[---].VIIIIPARTIUM
[---]DEMTESTAM..[..]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] he/she ordered [---] so that likewise on account of [---] of nineteen parts [---] by the will of the same [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 178, whence IRT, 2009, 178, whence EDH 059154; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VIII.16)