Description: Lower left corner of a marble base (w:
0.51 x h:
0.18 x d:
0.29).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Augustan - first century CE: 0.055.
Date: Augustan - first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Agora: in the photograph of 1928 as from the Agora, probably the Agora Square.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum (1928).
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
- ma per natura di Eufane (?) i Cirenei (honorarono)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . natural child of Euphanes: the Cyrenaeans (honoured)
Commentary
The subject is probably Pausanias, adopted son of Philiskos, natural son of Euphanes, priest of Apollo in CE 2 and in that year regarded as responsible for the successful conclusion of the Marmaric War, see GVCyr 27; but other members of the family are also possible, see on C.41.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 61 (54), p. 97, pl. XI, fig.17 whence SEG 9.59; SECir, 1961-1962, 57, from a drawing, (T. XIV 25).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Squeeze (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1979: est CD 200)