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C.188. Fragments

Description: Two fragments from a marble panel. a, from the upper edge: w: 0.22 x h: 0.26 x d: 0.09; b: w: 0.21 x h: 0.23 x d: 0.09.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First to second centuries. a: line 1, 0.075, line 2, 0.05; b.: 0.075.

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Valley Street, near Building D; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

a
[---]RI[---]
[---][---]
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b
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[---]OỊ[---]
[---]RIA[---]
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Diplomatic

a
[---]RI[---]
[---].[---]
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b
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[---]O.[---]
[---]RIA[---]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

Given the imposing lettering, these fragments are probably from the titles of ana emperor; b, line 2 suggests that the emperor was Hadrian or a successor who included Hadrian in his filiation.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.188 a to the right, b centre, C.190 a to the left (Joyce Reynolds, I 9)

   Fig. 2. Fragment b (Joyce Reynolds, III.87)