Description: Two damaged limestone blocks, the second with a raised right border
(together w:
1.57 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.50)
Text: Inscribed on one face: the right end of the text cut on the raised border.
Some of the surface has been lost since discovery.
Letters: Second century: line 1, 0.07; line 2-4, 0.06;
Date: 164-166 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Antonine Arch; found fallen, one in 1935
and the other in 1959.
Original location: The south face of the left portal of the Antonine Arch.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, replaced in position.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Caesar M(arcus) Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, victor in Armenia: the city of the Cyrenaeans (scil. honoured) [as the greatest?]; the dedication was carried out by L(ucius) O-
Commentary
Τhere was probably a second inscription in honour of Verus above the right portal.
Line 2: Aurelius is only honoured as Armeniacus; so the text can be dated from 164 until 166 when he also became Parthicus Maximus and Medicus.
Line 2: the restoration at the end of the line is awkward, but hard to avoid.
Bibliography: Mentioned, Kenrick, 2013, 195
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).