Description: Inscribed block of limestone.
Text: No description
Letters: No description
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Recorded in 1861 in the Temple of Apollo.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1861).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For - . . . ] high [priest (i.e. pontifex maximus)], holding tribunician power for the third time, consul for the third time, father of the country: the city of the Cyrenaeans (scil. dedicated the statue); the consecration was performed by A(ulus) Minicius Rufus, the proconsul.
Commentary
Line 6: If the inscription is correctly read, the emperor must be either Gaius, from the first of January to his death on 15th March 40, Claudius, from the first of January to 31 December 43, or Vespasian from the first of January to 31 December 71.
Lines 9-10: Minicius Rufus PIR2, M 0626. See also the milestone M.199 referring to the proconsulate of Lucius Minicius Rufus, apparently dated to 77/78. This suggests either that Smith and Porcher made more errors in the transcription of figures here, or that an earlier Minicius Rufus, perhaps with praenomen A(ulus), also held the proconsulate.
Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 15, p.113 and plate 82 (drawing), whence IGRR, I.1036
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)
Images
None available (2020).