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P.342. Fragmentary titulature

Description: Right side of a limestone block broken into two pieces (together w: 0.49 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.29).
Text: Inscribed on one face which appears to have been plastered over, presumably in re-use.
Letters: Second to third century CE: line 1, 0.10; line 2, 0.065.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: original findspot unrecorded; found in 1938.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

[---]ϹΟΥΗ[---]
[--- ἀν]θύπατοϲ̣ [---]

Diplomatic

[---]ϹΟΥΗ[---]
[---..]ΘΥΠΑΤΟ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] proconsul [ . . .

Commentary

Probably Οὐῆρος or Οὐηριανός and part of the proconsul's name. It is difficult to restore the titles of the Emperor Verus here.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. P.216, upper part, with P.342 above (Reynolds XIII.33)

   Fig. 2. Face, upper part