Description: Rock-cut pillar, inscribed on two faces, with C.312 on the inner face,
C.313 on the east face
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.05; line 2, 0.07; line 3, 0.055; line 4 (in a different hand) 0.055-0.01; bar above Π in line 1. In line 2 Ρ cut
over Π, a small Δ cut above Η, its right leg continuing the upper slanting of Σ.
Date: Probably third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
east pier flanking the entrance to the so-called Cave of the Priests.
Found in 1934.
Original location: Cave of the Priests.
Last recorded location:
Cave of the Priests.
1: The superscript bar should mean that this was the praenomen of a Roman citizen.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
P(oplios) (i.e. P(ublius)) ?Kanares. Philarades.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Gordon, 1976, 213-4, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1977.591, SEG 26.1828, PHI 324723
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, I 19.)