Description: Marble block with dowel holes on top and at either end;
w:
1.03 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.50. First inscribed with
IGCyr 100000;
re-used in the Roman period.
Text: Inscribed at the left end of the face within a sunk panel
of which only the right end survives:
w:
0.27 x h:
0.19. The inscription must have started on an adjacent block.
Letters: First century CE; 0.03
Date: First cent CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
in front of the North Stoa; probably found in 1919.
Unknown.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, beside the
base or altar to which it had
probably belonged (2008)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ?tribunician power for the [?th time . . acclaimed Imperator] for the seventh time [ . . . ] The Cyrenaeans (scil. honoured)
Commentary
There is not enough evidence for identification. Emperors of the first century who received a seventh salutation are Tiberius in CE 14, Claudius between 43 and 45, Nero in 60, Vespasian in 71, Domitian in 84.
For the earlier text, see on IGCyr 99900; see also C.120. Stucchi believes that this block stood above the panelling of the altar.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 155
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds, IV.73)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. View, right end (2008, H.Walda)