Dedication for an emperor
created: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).
source date: First - second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 76, (from T.XIII 9v), whence [...], 1964.562.

ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας [κτλ.] Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶ καὶ τῶ σύνπαντος αὐτῶ οἴκω [...] Φαωνι[...] σὺν παντὶ το͂ι κόσμοι

Translation

[For the safety [etc.] of the Emperor Caes]ar [[ . . . ]] [Augustus and his whole] household ?Phaoni-[ constructed/dedicated something with] all its adornment.

Commentary

Line 1: The emperor's name has been erased; the letter-forms suggest that he was Nero or Domitian, but Commodus is also possible.

Line 2: The reading is clear and the letters must be part of the name of the donor or dedicator - possibly from a nomen Φαώνιος (Favonius), or a cognomen. A praenomen or an abbreviated nomen, e.g. Κλ(αύδιος), must have stood in the gap before it.

Line 3: The reading suggested by Robert, loc. cit.