Description: Fragment of a marble panel, moulded above
(w:
0.32 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.18).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century; 0.05.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Altar of Apollo;
found in 1934 during excavation.
Original location:
Altar of Apollo: the east balustrade.
Last recorded location:
Altar of Apollo: standing on the altar.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Know yourself!
Commentary
For the altar see Pernier, loc.cit., 61f. He dated the balustrade to the IV cent. BCE; the inscription must, we think have been added later, probably in the Antonine period, to judge from the letter-forms.
One of the Delphic Maxims, which have been found inscribed at several locations - most remarkably at Ai Khanoum, in Afghanistan (see L. Robert, 'De Delphes à l'Oxus', CRAI, 1968, 416-457 (available at Persée). See γνῶθι σαυτόν at Rome IGUR 1642 and 1643 (PHI 189269, 189270) and at Pergamon , (PHI 316594).
Bibliography: Pernier, 1935, 70.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. (Joyce Reynolds, I. 67)