Description: Two fragments of a marble
panel (w:
0.33 x h:
0.44 x d:
0.15 and
w:
0.49 x h:
0.44 x d:
0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one face of the panel.
Letters: Line 1, 0.06; lines 2-6, 0.045-0.05.
Date: 138-161 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
fragment a: unknown; fragment b recorded in the Augusteum in 1861.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
Interpretive
[Αὐτοκράτορα Καί]σαρα ((stop)) Τίτ[ον Αἴ]λιον ((stop)) Ἁδριανὸν ((leaf))
[Ἀντωνεῖνον Σεβα]σ̣τὸν Εὐσ[εβῆ] υἱὸν ((stop)) θεῶ ((leaf)) ( vac. 3)
[Τραιανῶ Ἁδριανῶ] θεῶ Τραια̣[νῶ] υἱωνὸν ((stop)) θεῶ ((leaf))
[Νέρβα ἔκγονον τροφέ?]α ((stop)) καὶ σωτ[ῆρα κ]αὶ ((stop)) εὐεργέταν ((leaf))
5 [ἁ? πόλις? ἁ? Κυρανάων?] ἐπὶ ((stop)) Κ(οίντου) ((stop)) Ἰο[υλίου] Ποτείτου ((leaf)) ( vac. 3)
[τοῦ κρατίστου ἀνθυπά]του ((leaf)) ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
[..............]ΣΑΡΑ • ΤΙΤ[....]ΛΙΟΝ • ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΝ ❦
[..............].ΤΟΝΕΥΣ[...]ΥΙΟΝ • ΘΕΩ ❦
[..............]ΘΕΩΤΡΑΙ.[..]ΥΙΩΝΟΝ • ΘΕΩ ❦
[..... ............]Α • ΚΑΙΣΩΤ[....]ΑΙ • ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΑΝ ❦
5[.......][........]ΕΠΙ • Κ • ΙΟ[.....]ΠΟΤΕΙΤΟΥ ❦
[..................]ΤΟΥ ❦
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[Emperor Cae]sar Titus Aelius Hadrianus [Antoninus] Augustus, son of deified [Trajan Hadrian], grandson of deified Trajan,
[great-grandson] of deified [Nerva, sustainer?] and saviour and benefactor: [the city of the Cyrenaeans (scil. honoured him)]
when Quintus Julius Poteitus was the proconsul.
Bibliography: Right side: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 23, p.115 and pl. 83, whence Rossberg, 1876, 25, note 1, SGDI, 4852 (second fragment only); IGRR, I.1039; Both sides: SECir, 1961-1962, 56 and fig. 52 (from T. XI.71), SECir, 1961-1962, 56bis and fig. 53 (from T. XI 72), and combined by Pugliese Carratelli, whence AE 1974.679, listed Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.562
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1979: MFA 79/IX/30)
