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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0161. Fragments

Description: Cornice blocks of sandstone, stuccoed and painted.
Text: Inscribed on the frieze
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.09.

Date: First-third centuries CE

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio II. Found presumably near the East Forum Temple and now stacked in the NE corner of the precinct, together with related architectural fragments.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

a
[---]ICET[---]
b
((leaf))
c
[---] F̣laụ[i]

Diplomatic

a
[---]ICET[---]
b
c
[---].LA.[.]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a, b (Not usefully translatable)

c. [---] Flavius (case unknown) [---]

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 161, whence IRT, 2009, 161, whence EDH 059137; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXVI.39)

   Fig. 2. c: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXXVII.9)