IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.152. Fragmentary ?honours

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.07 x h: 0.06 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.02.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Street of the Monuments; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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[---]Κ[---]
[---ο]υ πρε[σβευτοῦ ---]
[---] Τι(βεριο)- Κ̣[---]
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Diplomatic

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[---]Κ[---]
[---.]ΥΠΡΕ[.......---]
[---]ΤΙ.[---]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[ . . . ] legate [ . . . ] Ti[berius] C[?laudius . . .

Commentary

Probably the legate of the proconsul but possibly a special envoy of the emperor or a local personage who had undertaken an embassy on behalf of the city.

Bibliography: Unpublished.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds)

Images

   Fig. 1. Squeeze, bottom right (Reynolds III.32)