Description: White marble panel from the front of a base
or altar (w:
1.33 x h:
0.78 x d:
0.28) standing on a moulded base.
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped at both upper corners and down the right side.
Letters: Second century CE; line 1, 0.06; line 2, 0.03; lines 3ff. 0.035; bars above the figures in line 3; stops for abbreviations,
and between words in lines 1,3,5,6; ivy leaves in lines 3,4,5.
Date: CE 118
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Assembly Building; found in 1921.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (2008)
Interpretive
[I]mp(eratori) Caesari ((stop)) diui ((stop)) Traiani Par[thici]
filio diui Neruae nepoti Traiano Hadriano
Aug(usto) pontif(ici) max(imo) tri(bunicia) pot(estate) ((leaf)) II ((leaf)) co(n)s(uli) ((leaf)) II ((leaf))
ciuitas ((leaf)) Cyrenensium ((leaf))
5Αὐτοκράτορι ((stop)) Καίσαρι ((stop)) θεῶ ((stop)) Τραιανῶ{ι} ((leaf))
Παρθικῶ{ι} ((stop)) υἱῷ Νέρουα υἱωνῷ ((stop)) Τραιαν[ῶι]
Ἁδριανῶι ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
[.]MPCAESARI • DIUI • TRAIANIPAR[.....]
FILIODIUINERUAENEPOTITRAIANOHADRIANO
AUGPONTIFMAXTRIPOT ❦ II ❦ COS ❦ II ❦
CIUITAS ❦ CYRENENSIUM ❦
5ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙ • ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙ • ΘΕΩ • ΤΡΑΙΑΝΩΙ ❦
ΠΑΡΘΙΚΩΙ • ΥΙΩΝΕΡΟΥΑΥΙΩΝΩ • ΤΡΑΙΑΝ[..]
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΙ
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Latin): For Emperor Caesar, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus, chief priest,
holding tribunician power for the second time, consul for the second time, the city of the Cyreneans (scil. dedicated this).
(Greek): For Emperor Caesar, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian.
Bibliography: Mentioned Oliverio, 1928, 318 and Oliverio, 1931, 22; published Pernier, 1928, 222 and fig 2 whence mentioned, Applebaum, 1950, A.1, p.88, on which also Applebaum, 1951, 177; republished SECir, 1961-1962, 55 and fig. 51.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F 360)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. View (2008, H.Walda)