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A.21. Fragment

Description: Fragment of limestone (w: 0.16 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.04).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Quite carefully cut, perhaps second-third century CE, 0.04. The cross-bar on T in line 2 is distinctive and curly.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Apollonia: In the area west of the East Church, between that and the Roman Baths; found in 1953.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum.

Interpretive

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[---]ΙΚΟ[---]
[---]ΤΙ[.]
( vac. 1) ΣΠ[---]
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Diplomatic

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[---]ΙΚΟ[---]
[---]ΤΙ]
  ΣΠ[---]
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English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Not usefully translatable, although the praenomen Tiberius may have appeared in line 2, case unknown.

Commentary

Line 2: Perhaps from Τιβέριος.

Line 3: Unless Σ began a word, the preceding letter can only be Α or Ο in view of the vacant space surviving at the top of the line.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 28 and plate LXV, whence SEG 27.1185.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.36: Alföldi-Rosenbaum)