Description: Fragment from the upper right-hand corner of a marble
panel
(surviving, w:
0.20 x h:
0.34).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.045.
Date: CE 249-251 (reign)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[--- to Quintus Herennius] Etruscus [Messius Decius [ . . . ] son of [ . . . ] ] of Augustus, our lord,[---] holding tribunician [power for the ? time [ . . . ]]
Commentary
Line 2-3 Augustus dominus noster: Trajanus Decius, Augustus 249-251.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 49, whence IRT, 2009, 49, whence EDH 059042; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
