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C.683. Fragmentary imperial ?honours

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.16 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.03).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Rustic capitals, Perhaps third century CE: 0.045; a leaf or a stop at the beginning of line 1

Date: Perhaps third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: photographed in 1930/1; findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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((stop)) ( vac. 1) Im[p](erator) [---]
[---]UM SỤ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

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  IM[.---]
[---]UMS.[---]
[------]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Emperor [ . . . ] his own [ ? expense. . .

Commentary

l. 1. Either a leaf or a stop at the beginning of the line

l. 2. Perhaps su[a pecunia . . ., or su[a impensa . . ..

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face