Building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably third century
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], 105, whence [...], 2014.539; mentioned [...], 188.

Ϲωσίβιοϲ Ῥοῦφοϲ δεκουρίων ἐποίηϲεν

Translation

Sosibios Rouphos Sosibius Rufus , dec(urion) made 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.