Description: Limestone base, moulded below, constructed from triglyphs
of the archaic Temple of Apollo,
(w:
1.16 x h:
0.97 x d:
0.71).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Augustan-first century CE; line 1, 0.095; line 2, 0.08; lines3, 4, 0.065; dot for stop.
Date: CE 4-14
Findspot:
Cyrene:
in the Strategeion, against the South wall; found in
1929.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (2008)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For Tiberius, son of Augustus, consul, acclaimed imperator, with tribunician Power; Sufenas Proculus oversaw the work.
Commentary
For an identical text see C.225 and discussion there.
For the portrait statue which was wrongly associated with the inscription by Polacco, and others, see Goodchild in Rosenbaum loc.cit. and Stucchi, Archeologia Classica XII (1960) 71f.
Bibliography: Pernier, 1935, 40-41; Gismondi, 1951, 12; Polacco, 1955 pl. IV, No. 2; Rosenbaum, 1960, no. 17, pl. XV; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 197.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).