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M.46. Informal dedication

Description: a. A broken panel; b. Broken panel of about the same size as a. c. Moulded fragment, perhaps the upper part of an altar, illegible. From a group of inscribed stones, M.45, M.46, M.47, M.48, M.49, and M.55.
Text: Graffiti on the face: a containing 9 or 10 lines of text in Latin, cut roughly in several comparatively small hands; b and c illegible.
Letters: No measurements

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: South of Berenike: Esc-Sheleidima; found and photographed by members of an Italian army unit in 1927.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1927)

Interpretive

a
[---]pisti s(ua) p(ecunia) poṣ[uit]
[---]FẠ[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]cinus R[---]
5[--- Au]e[l]ius P[---]
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b
c

Diplomatic

a
[---]PISTISPPO.[...]
[---]F.[---]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]CINUSR[---]
5[---..]E[.]IUSP[---]
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b
c

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(a) . . . ] set this up at his own expense[ . . . -]cinus R[ . . . ] Aurelius P[ . . .. (b and c) (illegible)

Commentary

For this group of texts see on M.45

a: Apparently a dedication to a shrine.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcribed from photographs (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of the group, M.45-M.55 (1927, Department of Antiquities, F. 1058)

   Fig. 2. a, Face (detail from F. 1058)

   Fig. 3. View of block next to B_043b (detail from F. 1058)

   Fig. 4. View, illegible piece next to B_045 (detail from F. 1058)


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