Description: Three limestone blocks apparently from the same monument;
a: w:
0.91 x h:
0.36, depth not measurable; b: w:
0.645 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.60;
c: w:
0.39 x h:
0.31, depth not measurable.
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: IV-V cent.: c. 0.09; square sigma.
Date: Fourth-fifth centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: a: Lying half-buried to the South East of the Market Theatre;
b and c: Re-used in the seats of the Market theatre;
found in 1955.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(a) [On behalf of the sa]fety and vic[tory . . .]
(b)[. . . the city of] the Cyrenae[ans . . .]
(c) Not transatable
Commentary
Clearly from a dedication made in honour of an emperor by the people of Cyrene.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976-1977, 1, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1024, SEG 35.1724
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).