IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.24. Fragmentary text

Description: Sandstone keystone: w: 0.28-0.72 x h: 0.48, depth not measurable.
Text: Inscribed on the face in paint on a plaster surface.The greater part of the plaster has been destroyed; the text was originally seven lines longer.
Letters: Sixth century CE; 0.05.

Date: Sixth century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Byzantine Palace: above the door leading from the courtyard into the chapel, in 1959.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]Α[.]Α̣
[---]Φ̣Α̣
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---] Ι̣ [c. 9] Ο̣Υ̣[---]
5[---] Ι̣ΜΜΕΠ̣ΟΙΙ̣ [c. 5] ΟΥ [---]
[---]ΟΜΙ[.]Λ̣[---]
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Diplomatic

[---]Α[·].
[---]..
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---].[·········]..[---]
5[---].ΜΜΕ.ΟΙ.[·····]ΟΥ[---]
[---]ΟΜΙ[·].[---]
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English translation

Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

l.5: Perhaps from μέροπες, mortals, mankind

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 31 whence SEG 27.1186; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 103.1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).