WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0110. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.205 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.03, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE capitals: 0.07.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio III, insula 1
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Sabratha Museum.

Interpretive

[---]RL[---]
[---] leg(io)- I[---]

Diplomatic

[---]RL[---]
[---]LEGI[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

(line 2) legion (scil. I )(or up to IX)[---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 110, whence IRT, 2009, 110, whence EDH 059097; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: above, unidentified, 176; below: 158, 110; Ward-Perkins Archive, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXVII.32)