Description: Left side of a marble block with socket hole on top
(w:
0.69 x h:
0.29 x d:
0.115)
Text: inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century: lines 1-4, 0.04; lines5-8, 0.025 -0.03.
Date: CE 106-7
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Found in 1927, during the excavations of the Temple of Hekate
and the Portico in front of it.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Temple of Hekate:
standing on the north wall of the cella (2008).
Interpretive
Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Ἀρτ[άμιδι c. 19 ὑπὲρ τᾶς τῶ]
Αὐτοκράτορος Νέρβα Τρ[αιανῶ Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶ Γερμανικῶ Δακι-]
κῶ σωτηρίας καὶ διαμ[ονᾶς καὶ τῶ σύνπαντος αὐτῶ οἴκω τὸν ναὸν]
καὶ τὰς στοὰς ἐκτὸς τῶ [c. 33]-
5-τω οἱ ἱαρὲς ἐκ τᾶν τῶ Ἀπ[όλλωνος προσόδων c. 17 ἐ-]
πεσκεύασαν διὰ Γ(άϊω) Ποστο[μίω Ὀπτάτω ἱαρεῦς Ἀπόλλωνος καλλιέτευς]
ἐφ’ᾧ καὶ ὁ κύριος Νέρβας Τ[ραιανὸς σεβαστὸς c. 12 μονάρ?-]
χον Δεκίβαλλον ἔλαβε [---]
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Diplomatic
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΚΑΙΑΡΤ[.....···················.........]
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣΝΕΡΒΑΤΡ[.................................-]
ΚΩΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΣΚΑΙΔΙΑΜ[.................................]
ΚΑΙΤΑΣΣΤΟΑΣΕΚΤΟΣΤΩ[·································]
5ΤΩΟΙΙΑΡΕΣΕΚΤΑΝΤΩΑΠ[...............·················.-]
ΠΕΣΚΕΥΑΣΑΝΔΙΑΓΠΟΣΤΟ[..................................]
ΕΦΩΚΑΙΟΚΥΡΙΟΣΝΕΡΒΑΣΤ[...............············.....-]
ΧΟΝΔΕΚΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΕΛΑΒΕ[---]
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Apparatus
3: ναὸν Oliverio cautiously suggested Ἑκάτιον, but we think that this would lengthen the line unduly. 4: ἐκτὸς τῶ [καθ'ἕτερον τοῖχον προβεβλημένω δρυφάκ]/τω. Oliverio, 1929 8: [τὸν τῶν Δακῶν πολεμάρ]/χον or [μονάρ]/χον Oliverio, 1929 the last seems the more suitable.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To Apollo and Artemis [ . . . ] For the safety and permanence of the Emperor Nerva Trajan [Caesar Augustus, victor in Germany,
victor in Dacia, and his whole household] the priests built from the [income] of Apollo the temple and the stoa outside the
[ . . .], through the agency of G(aios) Postomios [Optatus (i.e. G(aius) Postumius [Optatus), priest of Apollo in a good year], in whose time that the lord Nerva Trajan Augustus [ . . . .] capured Decebalus, the [?monarch
of . . .
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1929, 1, 113f., fig. 3w, whence AE 1929.8, SEG 9.101, PHI 323955, with Robert, 1940a 12, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1941.179; discussed Oliverio, 1931 52 Romanelli, 1943, 104, Serafini, 2014, 107-109; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 207.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.944)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. View of block (2008, H.Walda)
