Description: Limestone block, moulded above, from a Doric entablature
(w:
1.19 x h:
0.27 x d:
0.60).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second-third century, recalling those of the Antonine/Severan period. 0.10.
Date: Second to third centuries.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Baths of Trajan: in 1928 re-used in a wall in the northwest corner.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
Alternatively, perhaps [...-]ωντο τᾶς ἱαρὰ[ς...].English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
If the dating is correct the block presumably indicates a late repair to the building.
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1930, 2 p.159, fig. 20.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).