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C.775. Fragmentary imperial building inscription

Description: Architrave block, with guttae above the inscribed surface.
Text: Inscribed on one face, below the upper moulding
Letters: Large and apparently well-cut

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene, in 1819; findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown, but clearly from a public building.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1819).

Interpretive

[---] pont(if)- max(im)- trib(unicia) [pot(estate) ---]
[---]niạm facta [---]

Diplomatic

[---]PONTMAXTRIB[....---]
[---]NI.MFACTA[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] high priest, holding tribunician [power . . . ] ?made [ . . .

Commentary

From the titles of an emperor.

Line 2: So Pacho; possibly misread for [de sua pecu]nia fac(iendum) cur(auit).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXV.3, with Letronne p.396, whence CIL, 9
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXV)