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C.11. Fragmentary building? inscription

Description: Two fragments of a brown limestone block (a: w: 0.44 x h: 0.16 x d: 0.47; b: w: 0.24 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.24).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: a: 0.06-0.07; b: letters, shaved off below.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Caesareum. Found in 1935, re-used in a late wall near the south-west porch near C.12.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum

Interpretive

a
[--- ἀρχι]ερεύς [---]
b
[--- Ἁ]δ̣ριαν̣[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---....]ΕΡΕΥΣ[---]
b
[---.].ΡΙΑ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(a). . . . ] high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus) [ . . .

(b). . . . ] Hadrian [ . . .

Commentary

Perhaps from a Greek translation of the inscription recording repair of the south west gate, C.10.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.11 b, resting on C.7, block d, first part (Joyce Reynolds, II. 64).

   Fig. 2. C.11 b, resting on C.7, block d, end (Joyce Reynolds, II.92)