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C.709. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a greyish marble panel which has been cut down at the left for re-use (w: 0.08 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably second-third century; 0.025; ΝΕ and ΝΠΝ in ligature.

Date: Probably second or third century CE

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

Interpretive

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[---]Π̣ΟΛ̣Η̣[---]
[---]ΗΔΕΙ[---]
[---]ΝΕΙΝ̣ΠΝ̣[---]
[---]Π̣[---]
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Diplomatic

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[---].Ο..[---]
[---]ΗΔΕΙ[---]
[---]ΝΕΙ.Π.[---]
[---].[---]
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1: Perhaps for πόλει.
4: Perhaps . . . -]νεῖν πν[εῦμα.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.46)

   Fig. 2. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds I.76)