IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.138. Fragmentary building? text

Description: Fragment probably from the bottom of a white marble panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.08).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is only roughly dressed.
Letters: Perhaps Augustan: 0.10, truncated.

Date: Perhaps Augustan.

Findspot: Cyrene: Agora: in the photograph of 1937 as from the Agora, probably the Agora Square.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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[---] de pec[unia ---]

Diplomatic

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[---]DEPEC[....---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] from mon[ey . . .

Commentary

A record of construction. The monumental script suggests a public building; the phrase might be de/ex pecunia sua, from his own money (so e.g. C.104, M.46, IRT 605), or de/ex pecunia publica, "from public money" (so e.g. C.166, T.5).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1937 March 31, Soprintendenza alle antichita' cirenaiche, Dept. F 3092)