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C.693. Fragmentary ?decree

Description: Fragment, probably from the lower part of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.155 x d: 0.05)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries CE: 0.015, square sigma.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: photographed in 1937; findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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[---] ψ̣άφ̣[ι]ϲ̣μ[α ---]
[---]Ι̣ οἱ πρότε[ροι ---]
[--- το]ῦ̣ φιλοϲϲέβ̣[αστου ---]
[--- τ]ὸ̣ τεταγμέ[νον ---]
5[---]Τ̣ΑΤΗΝ [---]
( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

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[---].Α.[.].Μ[.---]
[---].ΟΙΠΡΟΤΕ[...---]
[---..].ΦΙΛΟϹϹΕ.[.....---]
[---.].ΤΕΤΑΓΜΕ[...---]
5[---].ΑΤΗΝ[---]
      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Decree [?of the Cyrenaeans: . . . ] the previous [ . . . ] lover of Augustus [ . . . ] the established [ . . .

Commentary

Apparently from a civic decree.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (1937 December 1, Sopraintendenza antichità cirenaica, F.3001)