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source date: Second to third centuries CE
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Bibliography

[...]ιν τῆς [...]υϲ [...]

Translations

[Not usefully translatable.]

Commentary

The panel lies in front of and perhaps referred to, a statue base at the east end of the room which supported a Capitoline-type Venus and other statues. Assuming base and panel to have corresponded in length, the panel will have been c. 3.02m long; the patter of its border shows that it cannot have been more than 0.70 deep, space for three lines only. It is probably not part of the Trajanic decoration of the room.

It is tempting to suggest a reference to Cyrene as τὴν μητροπόλ]ιν τῆς / [ἑξαπολέως] but there are many other possibilities.