Description: Marble base with reliefs of drivers in quadrigae on all faces
(w:
0.64 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.64).
There are informal inscriptions on two faces, C.123 and C.124.
Text: Graffito above the relief.
Letters: Augustan, varying from 0.01 - 0.025; L for ἔτους; several different hands. In line 1 the patronymic is written in small letters
within and between the letters of the names.
Date: Augustan
Findspot:
Cyrene;
Temple of Apollo Archegetes; observed in 1861 and 1904,
found again during excavation in 1917.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 13: Of Barkaios (scil. son) of Etearchos.
Year 13: Archedamos
Year 13: Sarapion also (scil. called) Kartisthenes
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
السنة 13: باركيوس (بن) إتيارخوس السنة 13: أرخيداموس السنة 13: سارابيوسن، أيضاً (دُعي) كارتيسثينيس.
Commentary
Line 1: For the patronymic written in small letters within and between the letters of the names, typical of ephebic inscriptions, see C.61, C.123, C.124, and many examples at Ptolemais: P.2, P.11, P.13, P.14, P.69, P.91, P.124, P.133, P.134, P.178, P.182, P.185, P.190, and compare P.200.
Bibliography: Described, Hamilton, 1856, 45, recorded in a lost painting by Porcher (1861), Thorn, 2007, 199; photographed Hogarth, 1905, 94, 98; texts published Oliverio, 1940, 412; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 245
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).