Description: Limestone block, perhaps lintel
(w:
1.41 x h:
0.43 x d:
0.31).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is very badly worn.
Letters: Line 1 0.10, too worn to date.
Date: Augustan to first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lying at the foot of the stairs in the street between the northern portico and the building in
the North-Western corner of the Agora.
3: . . . cura]uit or . . . restit]uit Gasperini, 1965
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Caius Clodius Vestalis, son of Caius, [proconsul. . . ] was ?responsible.
Commentary
Goodchild originally suggested that the block had fallen from the door of one of the tabernae behind the portico; Gasperini associates it tentatively with an arch over the entrance to the Agora at this point (Stucchi, Agora 231f.)
For Vestalis see the commentary on C.113.
Bibliography: Gasperini, 1965, 234 from a reading by Reynolds, whence AE 1968.536, whence EDH 015560; Gasperini, 1967a, 36
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Reynolds XIII.50)
Fig. 2. View (Reynolds XIII.22)