Description: Upper right-hand corner of medium-grained white marble panel
(w:
0.097 x h:
0.78 x d:
0.035). Stained brown, broken on all edges and damaged at the back.
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is chipped.
Letters: 0.03; rather roughly cut, between visible guide-lines.
Date: Probably Roman period.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: area D14/E14, 2.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 78-226)
1: Υ is incomplete and could perhaps be Χ, (in which case it is probably the end of a word); Δ might be Λ since it is difficult to distinguish the base of the letter from the guide-line.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ? Kla]udi[os . . .
Commentary
The reading proposed seems the likeliest and suggests the Roman nomen Claudius.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.46.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).