Description: Fragments from limestone architrave blocks from a Doric entablature: a: broken in two
w:
1.22 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.51);
traces of guttae on the upper edge of the face. b: (w:
1.46 x h:
0.34 x d:
0.48) the top of the block trimmed away.
Text: Inscribed on one face; distance from top of the block, 0.08-0.30.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.195.
Date: ?198 - 211 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: In the Valley street.
Photographed in 1937.
Original location: The architrave of the portico flanking the Valley street.
Last recorded location:
Now standing on the retaining wall, about half way between the Sanctuary and the Antonine Arch,
(for which see C.213).
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): . . . ] victors in ?Arabia, victors in A[diabene . . . (a): . . . ] consul[s? . . .
Commentary
a and b certainly belong to the same monumental inscription, which ran along the architrave of the portico flanking the Valley Street. a probably gives part of the titles of a pair of emperors; and, within the limits indicated by the letter forms, the most likely pair are Septimius Severus and Caracalla, between 198 and 211 - Ἀραβι]κῶν Ἀ[διαβηνικῶν. b might also come from their titles - ὑπάτ[ων - or from that of the dedicating proconsul, [ἀνθ]υπάτ[ου].
Bibliography: Mentioned, Goodchild, 1971, 135
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1937 May 12, Department of Antiquities, F 3151)