Building inscription from the Temple of Apollo
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 177-192 CE
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Bibliography

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ἔτους [...] Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Δέκμος Κασκέλλιος Ἀριστοτέλης ἱερεὺς καλλιέτης καὶ [...] Κασκέλλιος Ἀριστοτέλης ναι[...] ἐφ’ ὧν ὁ νεὼς ἐγένετο καὶ ἀφιερώθη

Translations

[?]of Marcus Aurelius [[Commodus]] Antoninus Augustus: D(ekmos) Kaskellios D(ecimus) Cascellius Aristotles, priest in a good year and [? K]askellios Cascellius Aristotles [ . . . ] in whose time the temple was built and consecrated.

Commentary

See also C.251, for the date of the reconstruction of the temple after its destruction during the Jewish Revolt of CE 115.

Line 3: For this epithet applied to priests at Cyrene, see commentary on C.222.

Line 4: ⟨Enough of the third letter survives to rule out Robert's attractive suggestion of ναυκόρος.