IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.32. Fragments

Description: Fragments of a marble panel (d: 0.02): a. Two joining fragments, w: 0.29 x h: 0.21; b. Two adjoining fragments, w: 0.15 x h: 0.185; c. One fragment, w: 0.24 x h: 0.17; d. Three joining fragments with a lower edge, w: 0.43 x h: 0.325.
Text: Inscribed on one face. b and c apparently joining.
Letters: Second century CE; a.-c. 0.09; d. 0.075; trenches left rough but heavily rubricated.

Date: Second century CE

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

Interpretive

a
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[---]ΚΑ̣[---]
[---]ΑΩΝ[---]
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b + c
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[---]Ω̣[---]
[---]ἱερα̣[---]
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d
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[---]ΡΩ̣[---]
[---]Κ̣ΑΝΑΙ̣[---]

Diplomatic

a
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[---]Κ.[---]
[---]ΑΩΝ[---]
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b + c
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[---].[---]
[---]ΙΕΡ.[---]
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d
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[---]Ρ.[---]
[---].ΑΝΑ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

In addition to these, there are a number of fragments with one letter only.

a: Perhaps [Κυραν]άων.

b:The traces of a horizontal serif in the upper line

d: Perhaps [ἀνέθη]καν Ἀπ[όλλωνι].

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Fragment a (Joyce Reynolds, VI.80)

   Fig. 2. Fragment b (Joyce Reynolds, VI.77)

   Fig. 3. Fragment c (Joyce Reynolds, VI.79)

   Fig. 4. Fragment d (Joyce Reynolds, VI.81)

   Fig. 5. Fragment d (Joyce Reynolds, VI.83)