IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.53. Fragments from building? dedication

Description: Stone fragments.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: No description.

Date: Perhaps second century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Acqueduct: among the ruins of an aqueduct south of the village. Recorded in 1817.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1817).

Interpretive

AD[c. 4] Caes[c. 4]EU[c. 5]
TI[c. 4] DEM [c. 4] CUMIC [c. 5]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[aqu]aedu[ctc. 4]
CUN[c. 4]

Diplomatic

AD[····]CAES[····]EU[·····]
TI[····]DEM[····]CUMIC[·····]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[...]AEDU[..····]
CUN[····]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Not translatable, but includes a reference to an emperor (Caesar), to an aqueduct, and perhaps to a water-channel.

Commentary

Perhaps (as suggested in CIL) Della Cella has transcribed four fragments of a two-line text. The name of an emperor (possibly Hadrian), part of the word aquaeductus, and possibly part of the word cuniculus may be discerned.

Bibliography: Della Cella, 1819, 156, whence CIL, III.12, Reynolds, 1976, 75; discussed Struffolino, 2014, 370.
Text constituted from: Previous publication (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).