Description: Part of the right side of a marble panel (w:
0.295 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one face, the first two lines on a raised tabella ansata.
Letters: Second century: line 1, 0.015; line 2, 0.02; lines 3-6, 0.025.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Agora, probably the Nomophylakeion;
photographed in 1925, as from the Agora
or Sanctuary, with a piece from the Nomophylakeion.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
? . . .justly (or) as a dream . . . oracle . . . we cross/?traverse . . . the just - . . . ?crossing/traversing . . . you have/hold . .
Commentary
The first surviving word was perhaps δικαίως; or [...]αι ὡς ἄναρ (for ὄναρ)
Perhaps κλ]ήδων, "oracle/prophecy"; if so the stone probably came from the sanctuary and is connected with Apollo.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities F.428)