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C.219. Fragmentary list? of priests of Apollo

Description: A marble stele in two fragments, inscribed on three sides with C.219, C.220 and C.221: upper part (a) (w: 0.43 x h: 1.13 x d: 0.23) has a hole on the top for the attachment of another block during the period of the original use. Lower fragment (b) complete below (w: 0.425 x h: 0.465 x d: 0.24)
Text: Inscribed on the face; each entry in a different hand. An incised barley ear concludes the text.
Letters: First century CE Lines 1,5,6, 0.03; line 2, 0.04; lines 3,4, 7-9, 18-20, ave 0.035; lines 10, 13, 0.045; lines 11, 14, 0.05; ll 21ff. 0.025; bar above the figure in line 26; stops for abbreviated names, and between words in lines 22-24, 26 and once in 27. L for ἔτους. S for digamma.

Date: 75/76 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: (a) :found in 1922, in the Byzantine Baths re-used as a paving stone; (b) found in 1925 in the Temple of Apollo.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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[Ἀγχίστρατος Καρτι-]
σθένευς
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος
( vac. 1) Παγκλῆς ( vac. 1)
5Κλαυδίω Κλεάρχω
Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἀντώνιος Φλάμμα
υἱὸς Γέμελλος
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος
Ἀπολλωνίω υἱὸς
10 ( vac. 1) Πρεῖσκος ( vac. 3)
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος ( vac. 1)
Ἀριστάρχω
υἱὸς ( vac. 3)
Ἀριστάν- ( vac. 1)
15δρος ( vac. 3)
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος ( vac. 1)
Ἴστρος Φιλίσκου
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος ( vac. 1)
Ἄσκλαπος Φιλίσκου
20Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἀσίνιος Φίλω-
ν̣ος υἱὸς Εὐφράνωρ
Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Τ̣ι̣(βερίω)
Κλαυδίω Κλεάρχω
ἀρχιερέος υἱὸς
25 ( vac. 3) Καρνήδας ( vac. 1)
(ἔτους) ρϛ´ Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Τι(βερίου)
Κλαυδίου Ἴστρου υἱ-
ὸς Φιλίσκος ((barley-ear))

Diplomatic

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ΣΘΕΝΕΥΣ
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
  ΠΑΓΚΛΗΣ  
5ΚΛΑΥΔΙΩΚΛΕΑΡΧΩ
ΜΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΦΛΑΜΜΑ
ΥΙΟΣΓΕΜΕΛΛΟΣ
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΩΥΙΟΣ
10  ΠΡΕΙΣΚΟΣ      
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ  
ΑΡΙΣΤΑΡΧΩ
ΥΙΟΣ      
ΑΡΙΣΤΑΝ-   
15ΔΡΟΣ      
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ  
ΙΣΤΡΟΣΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΥ
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ  
ΑΣΚΛΑΠΟΣΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΥ
20ΜΑΣΙΝΙΟΣΦΙΛΩ
.ΟΣΥΙΟΣΕΥΦΡΑΝΩΡ
ΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ..
ΚΛΑΥΔΙΩΚΛΕΑΡΧΩ
ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΟΣΥΙΟΣ
25      ΚΑΡΝΗΔΑΣ  
L ΡϚΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣΤΙ
ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΙΣΤΡΟΥΥΙ
ΟΣΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΣ barley-ear

Apparatus

24: The first Ο corrected from ?Τ or Υ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . Anchistratos (scil. son) of Karti]sthenes; Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Pankles (scil. son) of Klaudios (i.e. Claudius) Klearchos; M(arkos) Antonios Gemellos (i.e. M(arcus) Antonius Gemellus) son of Phlamma (i.e. Flamma); Ti(berios) Klaudios Preiskos (i.e. Ti(berius Claudius Priscus) son of Apollonios; Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Aristandros, son of Aristarchos; Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Istros (scil. son) of Philiskos; Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Asklapos (scil. son) of Philiskos; M(arkos) Asinios (i.e. M(arcus) Asinius) Euphranor son of Philo; Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Karnedas son of Ti(berios) Klaudios Klearchos, high priest; Year 106: Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Philiskos son of Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Istros

Commentary

Apparently a running record of priests of Apollo: it is not possible to distinguish the hands in each entry, but the use of Doric forms in one and κοινή forms in another, as well as a small difference in the size of the spaces between lines, and the uses of punctuation, suggest that the text was not cut as a unit.

l.26 106 of the Actian era = CE 75-76.

Bibliography: (a) SECir, 1961-1962, 3 and fig. 4, (from T.XI 59). (b) SECir, 1961-1962, 5 p.226, fig. 7 (from T.XI 45); reassembled and republished Laronde, 1987a 475-477, and plates I-III, whence SEG 37.1671.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. Face, lines 2-13 (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 3. Face, lines 12-21 (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 4. Face, lines 20-28 (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 5. Lower part, lines 22-28 (Department F.472)

   Fig. 6. View, left side (2008, H.Walda)