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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0179. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a panel of cream marble (w: 0.33 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.035) no edges surviving.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Third century CE capitals: 0.08.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

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

Interpretive

[---]BỊ[---]
[---]e filia[e ---]
[--- p]osue[runt ---]

Diplomatic

[---]B.[---]
[---]EFILIA[.---]
[---.]OSUE[....---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] to (or of) a daughter [---] they set up [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 179, whence IRT, 2009, 179, whence EDH 059155; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: above, 179, Unidentified; below, 130, 63; Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XVIII.22)