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M.231. ?Christian dedication

Description: Lower part of a limestone altar, still partly buried (w: 0.42 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.31).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is in very poor condition.
Letters: Very rough: 0.04 -0.05; lunate epsilon.

Date: Fourth - sixth century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: In a group of ruins beside the sea between the Wadi Sahela and Ruus el Aslab, about 1km from the Apollonia/Hilal road; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

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[---]Κ̣[.]Ι̣Ο̣[..]
Ῥ̣ογᾶτ[ο]ϲ [.]((crux))
ἀνέθ[η]κε ((crux))
[ὑπ]ὲρ [τ]εκν-
[ῶν ---]

Diplomatic

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[---].[·]..[··]
.ΟΓΑΤ[.]Ϲ[·]
ΑΝΕΘ[.]ΚΕ
[..]ΕΡ[.]ΕΚΝ
[..---]

4,5: [τ]εκν[ου or [τ]εκν[ων Frigerio, 1976

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Rogatos dedicated on behalf of (scil. his) child/children

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Frigerio, 1976, 428 and fig. 14, whence SEG 26.1842, PHI 324733.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).