IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.209. Fragment

Description: Fragment of coloured marble (w: 0.07 x h: 0.065 x d: 0.02); the straight lower edge slices letters hoizontally so that either the panel was composite or it has been cut down for re-use.
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Byzantine; 0.035; lunate epsilon or sigma

Date: Byzantine

Findspot: Ptolemais: in the street on the North side of the Colonnaded Palace; found in 1966.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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[---]ΙΤΑΙ̣[---]
[---]Γ̣Ε̣Υ̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

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[---]ΙΤΑ.[---]
[---]...[---]
[------]

Apparatus

2: Γ might be Τ or Π, Ε might be lunate sigma, Y might be X

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, IV.16)