IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.665. Fragmentary ?dedication

Description: Lower right corner of a small marble altar, moulded below (w: 0.15 x h: 0.185 x d: 0.12).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE; 0.012.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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[ - - - ]ΝΕ ( vac. 2)
[.. Ἀριστό?]δημος
[c. 7 Κο?]ύρῃ ( vac. 1)
[ἀνέ]στησεν̣

Diplomatic

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[]ΝΕ    
[··......]ΔΗΜΟΣ
[·······..]ΥΡΗ  
[...]ΣΤΗΣΕ.

Apparatus

4: ΣΤΗΣΕΙ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ?Aristo]demos put (scil. this) up for ?Kore.

Commentary

This is a very tentative restoration: this would be the only example of Kore spelled in this way in Cyrenaica.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument