Description: Fragment from the lower part of a sandstone panel
(w:
0.24 x h:
0.21).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded border.
Letters: Probably first century CE Lines 1,2: 0.042; line 4:n0.035; a stop in the form of a trisceles in line 4.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
photographed in 1929.
Unrecorded but probably the East Church,
the only area being excavated at the time of recording.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] ?to Ap[ollo . . . ] emperor (case perhaps dative) (erasure) . . . -]canius Ce[ . . .
Commentary
Line 1: Probably AP, although the bowl is brought round to meet the upright which is not so with the P in line 2; but since the word looks as if it was placed centrally and is emphasised also by being spaced only half a line above line 2 it is be attractive to restore Ap[ollini] or Ap[olloniatae].
Line 2: Apparently the conclusion of the title of one member of an imperial house to be followed, after a space at least as long as the word which partly survives in line 1, by that of another; a third, erased after damnation, may have stood in line 3, suggesting Vespasian, Titus and Domitian; but this position might alternatively have been occupied by the name of a disgraced proconsul.
Line 4: Presumably the name of the donor or the dedicating official.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 18 and pl. LXIII.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).