Description: Two limestone blocks, the second with traces of moulding above from a Doric entablature, and a fragment of a third
(a and b together: w:
2.55 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.32; c: w:
0.37 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.16). d is another similar block.
Text: Inscribed on one face, probably from the same monumental inscription.
In a and b the surface is heavily worn. d does not appear to have been inscribed in the position of the first and third line.
Letters: a, b and c: Second century, 0.06. d: Forms very like those of the other fragments, though their size is very slightly smaller.
Date: ? 180-192 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, a in the threshold of Temple F, b in the wall of the late house beside it,
d built into a wall to the east; found in 1957.
Original location: It is probable that all four came originally from the architrave of Temple F.
Last recorded location:
Findspots (1957)
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a-b) ?Emperor Commodus (name erased) . . . -]lisia built the temple with . . . and the [?] at his/their own expense.
c and d are not translatable.
Commentary
a-b: In view of the letter forms, the completely erased line probably contained the name and titles of Commodus.
a-b, line 1: Probably the patronymic of the donor - the reading is very uncertain, but [Κ]λισια would be possible: cf M.158.
d. is probably not from this inscription, but may be from a related text.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Block b, face (Reynolds VIII.27)
Fig. 2. Block b, face
Fig. 3. Block b (Joyce Reynolds 1961, II.70))
Fig. 4. Block c, face (Reynolds VIII.58)
Fig. 5. Block c, face
Fig. 6. Block c, view (Joyce Reynolds 1961)