Description: Block of limestone
(Gasperini says "Architrave block") with traces of moulding above,
from a Doric entablature
(w:
0.95 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.20).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is badly corroded. `
.
Letters: First century; line 1, 0.15-0.295; line 2, 0.315-0.425.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Augusteum, standing on the North wall; photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Augusteum, lying fallen in the room behind the north wall.
1: Gasperini does not see CI
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . high pri]est, acclaimed imperator twice, [ . . responsibility of x], prefect of the cohort [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1: The apparent erasure may be fortuitous. It is not clear whether it has destroyed a figure or two letters incorporating uprights. The subject is probably a son of the imperial house - perhaps Tiberius before the death of Augustus (he was pontifex by 16 BCE, imperator in 9 BCE, imperator II in 7 BCE) or Germanicus (pontifex by 18 CE and imperator II in the same year.
Gasperini rejects pontifi]ci and prefers a title, e.g. munifi]ci refering to subsequent imp which would be a genitive and preceded by e.g. sumptibus or the like.
Line 2: Possibly M. Sufenas Proculus , who set up C.118, C.225 and C.226, in honour of Tiberius and is described in C.118, line 4 as praefectus cohortis Lusitanorum: but he is unlikely to have been the only cohort commander in Cyrene during the relevant period.
Bibliography: Gasperini, 1965, 329.2 and pl. LXIV. 5., whence AE 1968.541, whence EDH 015575; Gasperini, 1967a, 39 and fig. 221
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds XII.65)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds XII.54)