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C.708. ?Ephebic name

Description: Block of limestone (w: 1.20 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.53) .
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; 2: line 1, first three letters, 0.026, remainder 0.18; line 2, 0.11; line 3, 0.03.

Date: 23-25 CE

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

Interpretive

1
(ἔτους) ν̣δ̣´
2
Ἀπολλὼς
Ἀντιόχου̣
(ἔτους) νε´ καλ̣[---]

Diplomatic

1
L ..
2
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΣ
ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟ.
L ΝΕΚΑ.[---]

Morelli only published 2, lines 1-2

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(1): Year 54. (2): Apollos (scil. son) of Antiochos, year 55 [ . . .

Commentary

Probably ephebic.

1, line 1: 54 of the Actian era= CE 23-24.

2, line 3: 55 of the Actian era = CE 24-25.

Bibliography: 2, lines 1-2, SECir, 1961-1962, 262, p. 351.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face of text 2 (Reynolds, Ι.84)