Description: Semicircular mosaic floor of a small fountain.
Text: Mosaic lettering within a narrow panel damaged at the lower edge
(w:
2.66 x h:
0.30).
Letters: Probably third century: line 1, 0.12; line 2, 0.11, square sigma.
Date: Probably third century
Findspot:
Cyrene: Found in 1957 in
Valley Street, Fountain at the west end of building H,
at the intersection with the main North-South Street of the city, "carrefour de la Vallée".
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Sosibios Rouphos (i.e. Sosibius Rufus) , dec(urion) made (scil. this)
Commentary
Also in C.194; perhaps the father of the Sosibios Rouphos the younger in C.312. All three monuments are likely to be of the middle third century
Line 2 or δεκ(άπρωτος). Neither term is otherwise attested at Cyrene. If δεκ(ουρίων) is correct it would appear to imply a Romanisation of the nomenclature of municipal government, which could perhaps be connected with the activity of Claudius Gothicus, see C.86, but it should be noted that Synesius still used the Greek forms, cf. Ep. 93.
Bibliography: Venturini, 2013, 105, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2014.539; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 188.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Beginning of lines 1 and 2 (Reynolds VII.11)
Fig. 2. Parts of lines 1 and 2 (Reynolds VII.8)
Fig. 3. Parts of lines 1 and 2 (Reynolds VII.10)
Fig. 4. Parts of lines 1 and 2 (Reynolds VII.9)
Fig. 5. End of line 1 (Reynolds VII.7)