Dedication of the North Stoa
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 161
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ἔτει α Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου καὶ Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Αὐτοκρατόρων Γάϊοϲ Κλαύδιοϲ Τιτιανὸϲ Δημόϲτρατοϲ ἀνθύπατοϲ Κρήτηϲ καὶ Κυρήνηϲ μητροπόλεωϲ ἀφιέρωϲεν

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: Αὐρηλίο[υ] [; so AE and SEG]]

[^a2: at 2: Οὐήρου [; so AE and SEG]]

[^a3: at 7: Κυρή[νηϲ] [; so AE and SEG]]

Translation

Year one of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Verus, Emperors; G(aius) Cl(audius) Titianus Demostratos, proconsul of Crete and Cyrene, metropolis, consecrated this.

Commentary

Line 1: CE 161.

Line 6: for the proconsul see PIR2, C 1044, and Thomassen, Laterculi 38.044.

Line 8: Metropolis: The earliest dated instance of this applied as a title to Cyrene; it presumably underlines her position as chief city of the koinon of the Hexapolis. It is strange that it should be stressed in the title of the proconsul which ought to refer to the whole province: Larsen, loc. cit. argued from it that the other cities of Cyrenaica did not enjoy full civic status but were in some real sense dependent on Cyrene.

l.9 Applebaum, loc.cit., takes the text as evidence for the insertion of a small shrine between the columns of the Northern portico, and connects the work with restoration after the Jewish Revolt. The findspot is too imprecise to allow the first conclusion; and it is unnecessary to attribute every second century building at Cyrene to rebuilding after the Jewish Revolt.