IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.44. Funerary? fragment

Description: Fragment of a limestone panel (w: 0.05 x h: 0.09 x d: 0.015). The upper part is lost.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a circle in relief which is flanked to the left (the only surviving side) by an ansa: a. above, b. below.
Letters: a. 0.005; b. 0.003.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Near the City Wall, in the area of the Museum. Found between 1963 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum.

Interpretive

a
ΑΠ[---]
ΛΟ̣[---]
b
[---]ΛΛ̣Μ̣[---]
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Diplomatic

a
ΑΠ[---]
Λ.[---]
b
[---]Λ..[---]
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English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

Probably funerary; the remains suggest the names Ἀπολλώνιος/Apollonios, and a compound with -αλλάμμων.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 53, whence SEG 27.1165.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)