IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.23. Date

Description: Sandstone column, moulded below and near the top; h: 1.08 x diam.: 0.32
Text: Incised on the drum.
Letters: First century; lines 1, 2, 0.035; line 3, 0.04; lunate sigma

Date: 70/71 CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Byzantine 'fortress', Commandant's Bath-house, re-used in what are probably Arab additions; found in 1966.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) γ´ Αὐτοκράτοροϲ
( vac. 3) Καί̣ϲ̣α̣ρ̣οϲ
Ὀεϲπαϲιανοῦ (sic)

Diplomatic

L ΓΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟϹ
      ΚΑ....ΟϹ
ΟΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟΥ(sic)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 3 of the Emperor Caesar Vespasian

Commentary

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, SB.V.283)

   Fig. 3. In situ (Reynolds, SB.V.284)