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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0973. Fragment

Description: Block of sandstone (w: 0.97 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.41) originally stuccoed, from a monumental inscription: traces of stucco survive in the letters: the stone is badly worn at the left-hand end.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals, probably first century: 0.13-0.14.

Date: Probably first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Standing against the reverse face of the scaena of the theatre at Sabratha (1955).

Interpretive

[---]s Flaui- [---]
[---]um mun[---]

Diplomatic

[---]SFLAUI[---]
[---]UMMUN[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Flavius (case unknown) [---] (line 2 probably includes a reference to the municipality or to a public office).

Commentary

Line 2: At this point the text may have patron]um mun[icipi.]

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.1, whence IRT, 2009, 973, whence EDH 059811

Images

None available (2021).