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.262, C.263
Text: Inscribed on the face to the left of C.262;
broken away at the right side and at the lower left.
Letters: Second century: line 1, 0.025; lines 2, 3, 0.03; line 4, 0.02; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους; bar above figures
and the praenomina in lines 2-3.
Date: 148-149 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).
Apparatus
1: Θ Pacifico transcribed Ο; καὶ ιαʹ Pacifico transcribed KAHΛ2: αροϲ Pacifico transcribed ΛΡΟϹ
3: ΑΠ Pacifico transcribed Τ
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 179, also 11 of Antoninus Caesar: Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Ap[- . . . ], son of Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) [ . . . [priest] of Apollo.
Commentary
L.2 179 of the Actian era and the 11th year of Antoninus Pius = CE 148-9.
Bibliography: Recorded in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, Sardinian consul in Tripoli, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5145 b, from which IGRR, I.1031 b; see also Vitali, 1932, 70; SECir, 1961-1962, 2c and fig. 3 (from T.XI 1)..
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, H. 20)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds I.69)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)