IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.53. Fragmentary ?honours

Description: Right part of a table or seat of marble with a leg carved in the shape of a lion's leg (w: 0.91 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.34).
Text: a. Inscribed on the scholia (almost wholly lost); b. inscribed on the fillet below.
Letters: 0.08-0.085, rubricated; lunate epsilon, sigma; the lettering suggests a late date.

Date: Third to fourth century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: West Church; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Subsequently seen lying among debris beside Church; no longer visible in 1971.

Interpretive

a
[---]Ι̣Ι̣[---]
b
[---] Δεινομένουϲ
[---] τοῦ κρατίϲτου

Diplomatic

a
[---]..[---]
b
[---]ΔΕΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΥϹ
[---]ΤΟΥΚΡΑΤΙϹΤΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . ] of Deinomenes, the most honourable [ . . .

Commentary

Presumably a governor or other senior imperial official.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).