Description: Side of a small marble base
(w:
0.27 x h:
0.23 x d:
0.365).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century BCE - first century CE: line 1, 0.05; line 2, 0.045; line 3, 0.055.
Date: First century BCE to first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Temple of Athena: Found during excavations, and photographed in 1926.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Standing on the stylobate of the Temple of Athena.
1: ἱέρεαν SECir, 1961-1962 ; Κ]υραναῖοι SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] priestess [ . . . ] ?serving [as joint priest . . . the] Cyrenaeans (scil. honoured)
Commentary
Line 1: Reynolds was inclined to see a name here.
Line 2: The text presumably records a civic dedication of a statue of a priestess who was perhaps described as συνιεριτεύοισαν (joint priest) with the eponymous priest of Apollo for the year, cf. GVCyr 24, lines2-3.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 119 p. 290 (from a drawing by Anti, T. A II 2)
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
