Imperial honours for plural emperors.
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE
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[...], 201b with illustration, fig. 148, whence [...], 1964.582; [...], 6.c and pl. LVIII, whence [...] 27.1136. Discussed by [...] , whence [...] 38.1867; mentioned [...], 285.

[...] ὑφ᾽ ἡλίῳ δεϲπόται [...] εὐτυχεῖϲ Ϲεβαϲτοί [...] τῇ πόλει ὑπὲρ εὐτυχίαϲ [...]τουϲ αὑτῶν [...] τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνοϲ

[^a1: at 4: [...]τους αὑτῶν | [...]ους αὐτῶν]

[^a2: at 5: λαμπροτάτου | ἰεροτάτου]

. . . ] lords [of the earth] under the sun [ . . . ] fortunate, Augusti [ . . . gave?] to the city to further its prosperity [ . . . ] of themselves [ . . . by action of? . . .] the distinguished [governor]

The style recalls P.136 of the joint reign of Arcadius and Honorius (395-408) to whom perhaps this text also refers. The emperors had apparently made some gift to the city; and it may be that this should be connected with the embassy of Synesius to Constantinople to ask Arcadius for imperial aid for the province; cf. Περὶ βασιλείας 1100 c for a reference to restoration of buildings. See further Roques, Synésios de Cyrène et la Cyrénaïque du Bas-Empire (1987).

Line 1: For the formula cf. e.g. Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (2004) , 25, 26, 27.

Line 5: The title of the imperial agent, probably the praeses, who carried out the work or dedicated it.