Description: Fifty fragments of marble, all heavily burned,
from a panel (originally
w:
3.00 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.04 - 0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century CE 0.04 - 0.05; heavily rubricated. In lines 1-3 the stops, with the exception of the ivy leaf at the end of
line 1 are simply painted; in lines 4, 5 they are incised and painted; the palm branches which flank line 5 are painted only.
Date: CE 185-192
Findspot:
Cyrene,
Valley Street, Temple of Commodus;
the greater part was found in 1957,
in situ as fallen when the Temple was destroyed, but several fragments from the right end were in
Cyrene museum before 1941, presumably found during construction of modern buildings in the area.
Original location: Temple of Commodus,
from the front of the base of the main cult-statue
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum (2008).
Interpretive
Αὐτοκράτορα̣ Κα̣[ίσα]ρα Λούκιο[ν Αἴλιον Αὐρ]ή̣λιον Κ[όμμοδ]ον Εὐ[σ]εβῆ ((leaf))
, Εὐτυχῆ Σε[βα]στὸ̣[ν Σ]αρματικὸν̣ [Γερμανικὸν] μέγισ̣[τον Βρε]ταννικὸν
τὸν σωτῆ[ρα] καὶ εὐεργέταν ἁ π[όλις ἁ] [Κυρανάων] ἁ̣ μα̣[τρόπολις] τᾶ̣ς̣ Ἑξα - ( vac. 1)
πόλιος̣ [ἀ]φιερώσαντος Λ(ουκίω) Σεμ̣[πρ]ω̣νίω [...] Ι̣Γ [c. 8 τ]ῶ κρατίστω̣
5 ( vac. 6) ((palm)) ( vac. 2) ἀνθυπάτω ( vac. 5)ἐπ’ἀγαθῷ ( vac. 12?)
Diplomatic
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡ.Κ.[...]ΡΑΛΟΥΚΙΟ[..........].ΛΙΟΝΚ[.....]ΟΝΕΥ[.]ΕΒΗ ❦
ΕΥΤΥΧΗΣΕ[..]ΣΤ.[..]ΑΡΜΑΤΙΚΟ.[..........]ΜΕΓΙ.[......]ΤΑΝΝΙΚΟΝ
ΤΟΝΣΩΤΗ[..]ΚΑΙΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΑΝΑΠ[.....][........].Μ.[........]Τ..ΕΞΑ-
ΠΟΛΙΟ.[.]ΦΙΕΡΩΣΑΝΤΟΣΛΣΕ.[..].ΝΙΩ[···].Γ[········.]ΩΚΡΑΤΙΣΤ.
5 palm ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΩ ΕΠΑΓΑΘΩ
Apparatus
4: [...]ιγ[...] omitted by Goodchild (so Robert, SEG)
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1961, 1, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.366 AE 1963.140, SEG 20.727, (whence PHI 324487); reprinted Goodchild-Reynolds, 1976, 216-228, pl. 77, 78, 79.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Reconstructed fragments (BSR 1632, 7)
Fig. 2. Reconstructed fragments (BSR 1632, 8)
Fig. 3. Reconstructed fragments (BSR 1632, 9)
Fig. 4. Reconstructed fragments (BSR 1632, 10)
Fig. 5. Reconstructed fragments (BSR 1632, 11)
Fig. 6. View of reassembled group, left part (Reynolds VIII.1)
Fig. 7. Left end (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 8. Centre left (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 9. Centre left (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 10. Centre (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 11. Right end (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 12. View of reassembled group, right part (Reynolds VIII.5)