IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.396. Caption for a statue of Anubis

Description: Statue base, broken to right (w: 1.16 x h: 0.57 x d: 0.41).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century; 0.09-0.10

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Ptolemais.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum garden (1974).

Interpretive

Ἀ̣ν̣ούβιδο̣[ς ---]

Diplomatic

..ΟΥΒΙΔ.[.---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Of Anubis.

Commentary

This is the first recorded reference to Anubis in Cyrenaica; but Isis and Serapis are both well attested.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1984, 843, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1027, SEG 34.1646
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.XV.21)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds NS.XV.22)