Description: Lower part of a limestone column, moulded below
(h:
0.94 x diam.:
0.41).
Text: Inscribed on the drum, c. 0.51 above the moulding, between guidelines.
Letters: Second-third century; 0.025 -0.03; square sigma, cursive omega, guidelines.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Temple of Artemis: found in 1861.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Temple of Artemis, standing in the basement of the pronaos.
2: ϹWΤΗΡΟϹΩ Smith-Porcher, 1864; σωτῆρος SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Of Zeus, Saviour [ . . . ]
Commentary
Line 2: Smith and Porcher print a standard Ω at the end of this second line, which is clearly wrong; such traces of the letters as survive might be consistent with a cursive omega.
Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 11, p.113s and pl. 80, whence Vitali, 1932, 269; SECir, 1961-1962, 77 p.261 (from T.XI 53), whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.562
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
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