Description: Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble
panel
(w:
1.57 x h:
0.20
when excavated); see also 126.
Text: Originally inscribed on marble. Read by Bartoccini when first excavated; not seen subsequently.
Letters: Capitals: 0.06.
Date: Third century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I,
Curia, re-used in the late fourth century CE paving.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[---] of [---] unconquered Augustus, chief priest, victor in Germany, greatest [Uictor---] holding tribunician power [---]
Commentary
Maximinus is the earliest emperor whose titles would conform; but Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, Probus, Carus, Carinus and Diocletian are all possible. The style of the monument appears to have been of the third century.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950 52.b, and drawing, whence AE 1950.153b IRT, 1952, 75a, whence IRT, 2009, 75a, whence EDH 059066
Images
None available (2021).