Description: Damaged marble stele,
consisting of two blocks standing on a base that is moulded on three sides (together w:
0.85 x h:
1.05 x d:
0.68).
Ιnscribed on two faces with C.265 and C.266
Text: Inscribed on the front face, which is damaged at the top and right side, and (line 10) on the moulded base; each entry in
a different hand.
Letters: First century CE : line 1, not measurable; lines 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 0.04; lines 4, 5, 7, 0.045; line 10, 0.03-0.035; / for homonymous
patronymics, in lines 2 and 4.
Date: 67-71 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Temple of Apollo, built into a late partition wall;
first recorded in 1861.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Standing in the Pronaos, beside the entrance of the cella, on the south side (2008).
Interpretive
Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἀντώνιος Κερεᾶλ̣ις ((leaf))
Πτολ̣ε̣μαίου (Πτολεμαίου) (Πτολεμαίου) ((stop)) (Πτολεμαίου) ((stop)) (Πτολεμαίου) ((stop)) υἱὸς ((leaf))
( vac. 6) Αἰγλάνω̣ρ ( vac. 4)
Μητρόδωρος (Μητροδώρου) [τοῦ]
5( vac. 1) Μητροδώρου ((leaf))
(ἔτους) ϙη´ Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Ἀρχίπ[που ((leaf))]
( vac. 3) υἱὸς Ἄρχιππος ((leaf))
(ἔτους) ϙθ´ Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἀντώνιος Μ(άρκου) Ἀντ̣[ωνίου]
( vac. 2) Φλάμμα υἱὸς Κασκέλλιος
10[(ἔτους) ρ]α̣´ Κ̣(όϊντος) Φάβιος Φιλίσκου υἱὸς Φίλιππος
( vac. 3 lines)
Diplomatic
ΜΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΚΕΡΕΑ.ΙΣ ❦
ΠΤΟ..ΜΑΙΟΥ / / • / • / • ΥΙΟΣ ❦
ΑΙΓΛΑΝ.Ρ
ΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΣ / [...]
5 ΜΗΤΡΟΔΩΡΟΥ ❦
L ϘΗΤΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣΑΡΧΙΠ[....]
ΥΙΟΣΑΡΧΙΠΠΟΣ ❦
L ϘΘΜΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΜΑΝ.[.....]
ΦΛΑΜΜΑΥΙΟΣΚΑΣΚΕΛΛΙΟΣ
10[..]..ΦΑΒΙΟΣΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΥΥΙΟΣΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ
vacat
English translation
Translation by: Editors
M(arkos) Antonios Kerealis (i.e. M(arcus) Antonius Cerealis) Aiglanor, the son of Ptolemy (scil. the son of four generations) of Ptolemy; Metrodoros (scil. son) of Metrodoros (scil.
son) of Metrodoros; Year 98, Ti(berios) Klaudios (i.e. Ti(berius) Claudius) Archippos son of Archippos; Year 99, M(arkos) Antonios Kaskellios (i.e. M(arcus) Antonius Cascellius), son of M(arkos) Antonios Phlamma (i.e. M(arcus) Antonius Flamma); Year 101, K(ointos) Phabios (i.e. Q(uintus) Fabius) Philippos son of Philiskos.
Bibliography: Transcribed in letter by Smith to Newton Thorn, 2007, 122; published Smith-Porcher, 1864, 24, p.115 and pl.84, whence IGRR, I.1030 and, from a copy by de Mathuisieulx, IGRR addenda I.1517; see also Pernier, 1935, 93 and fig. 83; SECir, 1961-1962, 4.a (from T.X 33). and (line 10) 6 (from T.XI 3, XIII 10v), fig. 5, 6, 8. Discussed, Marengo, 1996, whence AE 1995.1631, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.707
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face. lines 1-9 (1911, Norton 36)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face, lines 1-9 (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. Face, line 9-10 (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5.
C.265 and
C.266, view (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. Face (1911, Norton 24)
