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M.187. Seat inscription

Description: Limestone seat block
Text: Inscribed on the riser; the letters seem too well cut to be an informal graffito.
Letters:

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Balagrae, in situ in the cavea of the Theatre; found in 1957.
Original location: Cavea of the Roman theatre
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[Τ]ιτ̣ιανο̣[ῦ.]

Diplomatic

[.]Ι.ΙΑΝ.[.·]

Apparatus

Τ might be Γ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(scil. Place) of ?Titianos

Commentary

The text presumably gives the name of an individual to whom the seat was allocated.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Front (Joyce Reynolds, III.81)