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C.31. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description: Fragments from the top of a marble panel. a (two fragments): w: 0.32 x h: 0.36 x d: 0.025 + w: 0.31 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.025.
Text: Inscribed on one face: a made of two fragments, b, six unrelated fragments.
Letters: Second century; a: line 1, 0.075; line 2 0.07; the remainder truncated.

Date: Second century

Findspot: Cyrene: Theatre 3; found between 1962 and 1966.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum

Interpretive

a
[---]ος ἐκ θ̣ε̣μελ[ίων ---]
[---]ΜΕΝΟ[---]
[---]Κ̣Α̣Τ[---]
b: fragments
[---]Α̣[---]
[---]Κ̣[---]
[---]Ν̣[---]
[---]Ω̣[---]
[---]Ο̣[---]
[---]Ι̣[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]ΟΣΕΚ..ΜΕΛ[...---]
[---]ΜΕΝΟ[---]
[---]..Τ[---]
b: fragments
[---].[---]
[---].[---]
[---].[---]
[---].[---]
[---].[---]
[---].[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a) . . . ] from the foundations [ . . .] ?constructed [ . . .

(b): (Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

a: line 3: Since this is clearly concerned with construction, this line can perhaps be restored as κ̣α̣τ[εσκεύασ-...].

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. a: (Joyce Reynolds, VIII.62)

   Fig. 2. b: (Joyce Reynolds VI.78)