IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.78. Funerary? fragment

Description: Lower right corner of a stele of sandstone: w: 0.23 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.18.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first century BCE - first century CE; 0.035; roughly cut and poorly aligned.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Unrecorded. Found between 1963 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum.

Interpretive

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[---]ΙΟΥ
[---]Ν Ἀπολ--
[---]ΝΟΣΠΑ
[---]π´

Diplomatic

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[---]ΙΟΥ
[---]ΝΑΠΟΛ
[---]ΝΟΣΠΑ
[---]Π

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . ] of Apol[lonios . . . ?aged] 80 [ . . .

Commentary

l.4: The concluding letter is likely to be a figure = 80, and presumably an age, so that the text should be funerary.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 69 and plate LXIX, whence SEG 27.1153.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (C.Dobias-Lalou, 1976: MFA 76/11/40)