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C.697. Fragmentary name

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.21 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first to second centuries CE: line 1, 0.055; line 2, 0.03.

Date: Perhaps first to second centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: found before 1941; findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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[---] Meliọ[r ---]
[---]ṣ praef[ect---]
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Diplomatic

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[---]MELI.[.---]
[---].PRAEF[...---]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . Melio[r - . . . ] pref[ect . . .

Commentary

Probably commander of a cohort serving in the garrison of Cyrenaica.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, I. 25)