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C.334. Fragmentary ?restoration inscription

Description: Rock-cut tank; C.332 is inscribed on the internal wall, C.333, C.334 and C.335 on the floor.
Text: Inscribed on the floor. The text might be informal, but the purposeful if rough lettering suggests not.
Letters: First-second century 0.15; square epsilon, lunate sigma, square omega, very irregular.

Date: First to second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Fountain of Apollo, the tank receiving the water.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Τι(βέριοϲ) Κ̣λ̣αύδιοϲ Ϲεραπίωνοϲ̣ υ̣ἱ̣ὸ̣ϲ̣ [---]

Diplomatic

ΤΙ..ΑΥΔΙΟϹϹΕΡΑΠΙΩΝΟ.....[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) [ . . . ], son of Serapion [?built this]

Commentary

Roughly aligned with C.333, line 2 but clearly quite separate from it. It may have been a record of other work to the tank, though whether this was earlier or later the letter-forms are too rough to indicate.

LGPN read this as a single name, Ti(berius) Claudius Serapion (V1-65581). Ti. Claudius Pankles, son of Serapion, is attested as Priest of Apollo in the middle first century C.33; he or a relation may be involved here.

Bibliography: Text given in a footnote on SECir, 1961-1962, 112 (from Oliverio, notebook XV, page 81, dated 30 September, and p. 83)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).