Description: Fragment of a marble panel
(w:
0.58 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.07)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century: line 1, 0.07; lines 2,3, 0.05; line 4, 0.04.
Date: 138-161 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, north side, near modern Post Office and Antonine Arch,
in the same area as C.202;
found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[Emperor Caesar] son [of deified Hadrian, grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia,] great grandson of [deified] Nerva, [Titus Aelius Antoninus Pius Augustus, Chief Priest], holding tribunician p[ower for the ? time, acclaimed imperator ? . . . by ?Quintus Iuliu]s Potitus proconsul
Commentary
In this restoration, the use of the accusative case for the name of the proconsul strongly suggests that the text records a gift made by the emperor through the agency of the proconsul; hence the restoration of the nominative case for the emperor's name.
Line 4: Probably Q. Iulius Potitus (PIR2 I 0484a ) who is mentioned also in C.110. But he is not otherwise known.
Line 4: At the beginning of this line there may have been a description of the object given, or a reference to the recipients, but there is hardly room for the normal ciuitate Cyrenensium.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.3)
Fig. 2. View (1961, Joyce Reynolds, II.73)