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- Museum number
- 1891,0806.27
- Description
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Two joining fragments of a marble plaque with inscriptions relating to the emperor on both sides, one in Greek (A) and the other in Latin (B); the fragment is broken on all sides, so very little of the text remains. Side A has the remains of three lines of Greek alphabetic characters, recording a dedication to an Emperor (probably of the 3rd century AD). Side B appears to bears a fragment of the name of Antistius Sabinus, a governor of the island of the late 3rd or possible early fourth century AD.
- Production date
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200 -300
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late 3C3-early C4th (reused)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.95 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.90 centimetres
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Width: 15.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This object is part of a sequence of inscribed objects, all fragmentary, entered in the Register in 1891 (GR 1891, 8-6,24-31) that were not mentioned in Munro and Tubb's publication of the site. Their findspot is therefore unknown. The reason for their omission from the publication is also unclear, as Munro and Tubbs included many equally fragmentary examples in their catalogue.
See Pouilloux et al. 1987 for a modern edition and explanation of the texts. They argue that the presence of the title [Bretanicos] in the Greek text suggests Commodos, Septimius Severus or Caracalla.
The fragmentary Latin inscription made when the stone was reused points to Antistius Sabunus, a governor of the island who made dedications to Galerius and Constantius and to the Tetrarchs in the third or early fourth century (see Pouilloux et al. 1987, 66-69 for further inscriptiosn bearing his name).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1891,0806.27
