Description: a: two damaged blocks marble forming a stele standing on a base
(together, w:
0.70 x h:
1.05 x d:
0.83), together with a
further fragment, b (together, w:
0.18 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.11).
C.222 is on the right face.
Text: Inscribed across the two blocks forming the left face of the stele, which is
damaged at top and bottom, and in the centre, at the junction of the two blocks. Each entry in a different hand; a large ivy
leaf at the end of line 13.
Fragment b is from the lower left corner, lines 15 following.
Letters: First to second century CE; various hands, average 0.02-0.03; bars above all figures and praenomina; L for ἔτους
Date: CE 102-112
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Byzantine Baths: found in 1922,
re-used as a paving stone.
Original location: In the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo beside
the entrance to the cella, on the left side.
Last recorded location:
a: Temple of Apollo: replaced in its original location.
(2008). b: Cyrene Museum
(Inv. no. b: 455)
Interpretive
(ἔτους) ρλγ´ Τι(βέριος) [Κλαύδι]ος Ἄτταλος Τι(βερίου) Κλα-
υδίου Κλεά[ρχου υἱὸ]ς ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος
(ἔτους) ρλδ´ Τ(ίτος) Φλ̣[άβιο]ς Εὐκλείδας
Τ(ίτου) Φλαβίου Βά[ττο]υ υἱὸς ἱερεὺς
5Ἀπόλλωνο[ς]
( vac. 1 line)
(ἔτους) ρλε´ Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος
Φιλόξενος Ἀντωνιανός
(ἔτους) ρμβ´ Π(όπλιος) Σήστιος Πωλλίων Γ(άϊου) Σηστίου Φλώ-
ρου υἱὸς ἄμναμμος ΟΣ Μ(άρκου) Ἀντωνίου Φλάμ-
10μα ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλω[νο]ς συνκλητικὸς καὶ
ταμίας Ῥώμης ἀγ[ορα]νόμος κορούλης
στρατηγικὸς π̣ρ̣[εσβε]υτὴς καὶ ἀντιστρά-
( vac. 4)τηγος Κρήτ[ης κ]α̣ὶ Κυρήνης ((leaf)) ( vac. 3)
(ἔτους) ρλζ´ τοῦ κ[αὶ ι´ ] Γ̣(άϊος) Ποστόμιος
15Ὀπτᾶ̣τ̣[ος c. 4 Π]ωστομίω Ὀπ̣-
τ̣[ά]τ̣ω υἱὸ[ς ἱερεὺ]ς Ἀπόλλω[νος]
( vac. 6) [καλλιέ]της ( vac. 6)
(ἔτους) ρλη´ τοῦ̣ [καὶ ια´? Ῥ]ουτίλιο[ς ...]
Diplomatic
L ΡΛΓΤΙ[......]ΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΤΙΚΛΑ
ΥΔΙΟΥΚΛΕΑ[.......]ΣΙΕΡΕΥΣΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ
L ΡΛΔΤΦ.[....]ΣΕΥΚΛΕΙΔΑΣ
ΤΦΛΑΒΙΟΥΒΑ[...]ΥΥΙΟΣΙΕΡΕΥΣ
5ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΟ[.]
vacat
L ΡΛΕΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΣΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΝΟΣ
L ΡΜΒΠΣΗΣΤΙΟΣΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΓΣΗΣΤΙΟΥΦΛΩ
ΡΟΥΥΙΟΣΑΜΝΑΜΜΟΣΟΣΜΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΦΛΑΜ
10ΜΑΙΕΡΕΥΣΑΠΟΛΛΩ[..]ΣΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΙΚΟΣΚΑΙ
ΤΑΜΙΑΣΡΩΜΗΣΑΓ[...]ΝΟΜΟΣΚΟΡΟΥΛΗΣ
ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΚΟΣ..[....]ΥΤΗΣΚΑΙΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΑ
ΤΗΓΟΣΚΡΗΤ[...].ΙΚΥΡΗΝΗΣ ❦
L ΡΛΖΤΟΥΚ[...].ΠΟΣΤΟΜΙΟΣ
15ΟΠΤ..[..····.]ΩΣΤΟΜΙΩΟ.
.[.].ΩΥΙΟ[......]ΣΑΠΟΛΛΩ[...]
[......]ΤΗΣ
L ΡΛΗΤΟ.[......]ΟΥΤΙΛΙΟ[.···]
Apparatus
4: Βά[σσο]υ SECir, 1961-1962 8: Πωλλίων : Πολλιων SECir, 1961-1962 14: Oliverio did not supply the second figure 15: [. . 4 . . Π] : [Γ. Π ] SECir, 1961-1962 15-18: Fragment b supports the restorations already proposed at the left end of these lines. cdl 15-16: Ὀπ[τα]/τ[ω] SECir, 1961-1962 18: Oliverio does not supply the dates
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 133: Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Attalos son of Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Klearchos, priest of Apollo.
Year 134: T(itos) Phlabios (i.e. T(itus) Flavius) Eukleidas son of T(itos) Phlabios (i.e. T(itus) Flavius) Ba[tt]os, priest of Apollo.
Year 135: Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Tiberius Claudius) Philoxenos Antonianos.
Year 142: P(oplios) Sestios Pollio (i.e. P(ublius) Sestius Pollio) son of Caios Sestios Phloros, grandson of M(arkos) Antonios Phlamma (i.e. M(arcus) Antonius Flamma), priest of Apollo, senator and quaestor of Rome, curule aedile, praetorian legatus propraetore of Crete and Cyrene.
Year 137, also [10th year (i.e. of Trajan)]: C(aios) Postomios Optatos (scil. son) of [?] Postumios Optatos, [priest] of Apollo in
a good year.
Year 138, [also 11th (i.e. of Trajan)]: [R]utilio[s . . .
Bibliography: a: Lines 14-17 cited, Oliverio, 1929, 113, whence Robert, 1940a, 12, n.4; full text published Reynolds, 1959, 2, 96-98 and plate VIII, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1960.437, SEG 18.744, PHI 324446; discussed Robert, 1960a, 553-5, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.837, SEG 20.733; republished SECir, 1961-1962, 9.a, fig. 10 (from T.XI 63); discussed (ll. 8-13) Dobias-Lalou, 1998b, 412-413, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.620. b: SECir, 1961-1962, 8 (from T XI.13).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds, Dobias-Lalou).
Images
Fig. 1. a. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.321)
Fig. 2. a. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.321)
Fig. 3. a. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. a. View, left side (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. a. View (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. From left:
C.223.b,
M.220
