IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.394. Fragmentary honours from the city

Description: Right side of a marble base chipped at the right edge and below (w: 0.33 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.22).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Augustan/first century CE: 0.025.

Date: First century A.D

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

Interpretive

[---]κου ἡ πόλις ἡ Π̣[το-]
[λεμαειτῶν ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΚΟΥΗΠΟΛΙΣΗ.[..-]
[.........---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[---]. . . -]kos the city of the P[tolemaietαi [---]

Commentary

The inscription must have recorded honours paid by the city to a subject of whose name here only the end of the patronymic survives.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita V.10, NS.XIII.10)