Description: Right side of a marble
block
(w:
0.36 x h:
1.185).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Second century CE; 0.03-0.04.
Date: 177-180 CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
Village, 'northeast of the modern village';
recorded by Norton in October, 1910.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
In 'the house of Senussi Effendi' (1910)
Apparatus
2: Robinson supplied Κόμμοδον for the missing imperial name3: Robinson does not supply [μέγιστον].
4: Robinson omits this line.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[Statue of Emperor C]aesar L(ucius) Aurel[ius . . . ] Augustus, [chief] priest, [the] city of the Apolloniates (scil. set this up).
Commentary
Either Verus or Commodus. The space available at the beginning of line 2 strongly suggests Commodus; if so the praenomen L(ucius) should indicate a date before 180, but after 177 when he became pontifex maximus.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, 69, from Norton, with drawing, whence Reynolds, 1976, 60, SEG 27.1133.
Text constituted from: Previous publication (Reynolds)
Images
None available (2020).