IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.337. Dedication of an altar

Description: Limestone block (w: 0.37 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.37), perhaps the lower part of a composite monument or a base from which the top has been cut away.
Text: Inscribed on one face which was already in poor condition at the time of the inscription.
Letters: Second - third century: 0.035; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; leaf at the end of line 2.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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ε̣[ὐ]ξ̣ά̣μ̣ε̣-
[ν]οϲ εὐ- ((leaf))
[χ]αριϲτή̣-
ριο( vac. 1)ν̣ τοῦ-
5τον βω-
μὸν ἔϲ̣τ̣-
η̣ϲ̣α̣ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

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.[.]....
[.]ΟϹΕΥ-
[.]ΑΡΙϹΤ.
ΡΙΟ  .ΤΟΥ
5ΤΟΝΒΩ
ΜΟΝΕ..
...      

Apparatus

4: The cutter has had to avoid holes in the stone.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] having made a vow Ι set up this thank-offering, an altar (or) a thank-offering, this altar.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita IV.16, NS.XVII.16)