IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.139. ?Numbers or a ?name

Description: Circular pedestal, moulded above and decorated below the moulding with a band of pattern based on triglyphs and metopes (h: 2.00 x diam.: c. 0.08)
Text: Inscribed within three of the metopes (each w: 0.155 x h: 0.125)
Letters:

Date: First century BCE - third century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments north side, at a corner of a cross-street; found in 1935
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

1
ΟΕ
2
ΟΛ
3
ΟΕ
4
++
5
ΣΕ

Diplomatic

1
ΟΕ
2
ΟΛ
3
ΟΕ
4
··
5
ΣΕ

Apparatus

1: ΘΕ Thorn, 2006
2: ΟΔ Thorn, 2006
3: ΟΣ Thorn, 2006
5: Only recorded by Beechey

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Line 1 - 3 perhaps ό(ρος) ε´ or a compound of ὀδος followed by the figure. On the basis of Beechey's readings this might be a name, Θεοδοσ-

Bibliography: Apparently the same as a text recorded by Beechey, Thorn, 2006, X , whence SEG 56.2036
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. 1, Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.10, NS.XVII.10)

   Fig. 2. 1, Face (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.37)

   Fig. 3. 3, Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.11, NS.XVII.10)