Description: Fragment of a limestone column drum;
w:
0.90 x h:
0.232 x d:
0.57.
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Second-third century ; 0.08; lunate sigma, roughly cut.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Found in 1925 to the west of the Temple of Apollo.
Original location: Temple of Apollo, peristasis.
Last recorded location:
Temple of Apollo: lying in the passage immediately to the west.
Apparatus
1: Φιλιππικος τὸν κείον[α SECir, 1961-19622-3: The stone has deteriorated since discovery; nothing is now visible.
2: Oliverio did not report this line, altough there are traces on the photograph
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
?] Philippos son of Philippos (scil. gave) [the column to] Apollo [?from his own resources].
Commentary
Pernier refers to . . . ]Φιλίππου υἱός, presumably referring to line 1; the photograph, although not absolutely clear, suggests that Philippos was in the nominative case, followed by his father's name, with υἱός at the beginning of line 2.
Bibliography: Mentioned Pernier, 1935, 140; published SECir, 1961-1962, 48 p.248, fig 45 (from T.XI 19).
Text constituted from: Read from the photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F 477)