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P.81. Fragmentary ?building inscription

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.17 x h: 0.07 x d: 0.02).
Text: Inscribed on both faces; P.82 is on the reverse
Letters: 0.03. Rather rough.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: in the fill over the Villa of the Four Seasons.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

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[---]ạnịc̣[---]
[---]Ạ P(ubli)- Lacu[tani---]
[---] curan[te ---]
[---] ( vac. 1) p[---]
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Diplomatic

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[---].N..[---]
[---].PLACU[....---]
[---]CURAN[..---]
[---]  P[---]
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Apparatus

1: ] . N . [ Kraeling, 1962
2: Kraeling omits initial A
4: p[osuit] Kraeling, 1962

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ?Germ]anic[us . . . ] Publius Lacu[tanius. . . ] being in charge [ . . .

Commentary

C might be O. If C, the letters are probably from the word Germanicus and part of an imperial title; if o, it is likely to be part of a nomen.

Lacutanius: For this nomen in Cyrenaica see C.101, P.138.

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 10, verso, and pl. LII C i, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.589
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Chicago 48639)