Description: The lower right corner of a marble block
(w:
0.175 x h:
0.21 x d:
0.20).
Text: Inscribed on one face; the text must have continued on a lower block.
Letters: Second century: line 1, 0.04; line 2, 0.035, the final O rather smaller.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Temple of Hades; photographed in 1928
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot,in debris to the West.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[[ . . . ]] [the ] city, the metro[polis of the Cyrenaeans].
Commentary
Above, two lines have been completely erased; they presumably contained the names of an emperor and, in view of the date, perhaps of Commodus.
Line 2: The earliest dateable instance of the title metropolis is in CE 161 (C.119, line 8).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds I.73)