Description: Damaged marble block with holes on the top for
the attachment of a further block (w:
0.825 x h:
0.37 x d:
0.69); inscribed on three faces, the fourth left rough; on the others C.263, C.264
Text: Inscribed on the central face; only
the right half survives
Letters: First-second century: lines 1-3, 0.03; line 4, 0.04; lines 5,6, 0.035; each entry in a different hand.
Date: 71-72 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Temple of Apollo; first recorded in 1819.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot: standing in the Pronaos, beside the entrance of the cella, to the
left (2008)
2: ὶ γʹ Pacifico recorded ΓΓ, omitted by CIG ; ανοῦ Pacifico recorded ΛΝΟΥ, corrected by CIG
5: ΧΙΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ Pacifico, [Ἀρ]χ[ε]στράτου CIG
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . son] of Dionysios; [Year 103, also year] 3 of Vespasian, [ . . . ] son of Serapion; [ . . . son] of Klearchos; [ . . . son of ] Anchistratos; [ . . . -]ates [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1 Probably Σωτᾶς Διονυσίου; see C.49, line 11
Line 2 102-103 of the Actian Era and the third year of Vespasian = CE 71-72.
Line 3: Oliverio suggests [Τι Κλαύδιος Σ]εραπίωνος υἱός | [Παγκλῆς]
Line 4: For this form of the genitive compare e.g. C.306.
Bibliography: Recorded in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, Sardinian consul in Tripoli, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5145c and p.1241, from which IGRR, I.1031c; described Pernier, 1935 93f; republished SECir, 1961-1962, 2.a, and fig. 1 (from T.XI 2).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
