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C.436. Fragmentary building inscription

Description: Fragment of marble, moulded below (w: 0.21 x h: 0.075 x d: 0.015).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first to second centuries CE: 0.04.

Date: Perhaps first to second centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: probably the Wadi Bel Ghadir; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

[--- Procu?]lus f(aciendum) c(urauit) [---]

Diplomatic

[---.....]LUSFC[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ?Procu]lus was responsible for the construction [ . . .

Commentary

If a first century date could be accepted it would be tempting to connect the text with one of the Proculi known at Cyrene, probably M. Sufenas Proculus (C.9, C.118, C.225, C.437) rather than Q. Lucanius Proculus, see C.151, C.319, since the latter's name should have been followed by the title proconsul.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.696 to the left, and C.436 to the right (Joyce Reynolds, I 20)