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P.86. Fragment

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.12 x d: 0.015).
Text: Inscribed on one face of the fragment.
Letters: First-second century: 0.07; very finely cut.

Date: First-second century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: in the fill over the Villa of the Four Seasons; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum.

Interpretive

[---][---]
[--- aug?]urị [---]
[---]ṢỊ[---]

Diplomatic

[---].[---]
[---...]UR.[---]
[---]..[---]

Apparatus

1-3: Kraeling only reported line 2
3: There is a small superscript bar above the S which suggests an abbreviation.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Possibly a reference to an augur?

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 12, and pl. LII C..
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Kraeling n.12 (1956, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48639)