Description: Rock-cut pillar.
Text: Inscribed on one face, carefully laid out.
Letters: Probably third century: line 1, 0.07; lines2,3, 0.055; line 4, 0.06; square sigma, square omega.
Date: Probably third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
inner face of the west pillar, flanking towards the west 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 (2008).
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For Kl(audios) Markianos (i.e. Cl(audius) Marcianus) the young(scil. er), truly (scil. priest) in a good year, with good fortune!
Commentary
On the cave see Stucchi, 1981, esp. 104-5.
Line 3:For this epithet applied to priests at Cyrene, see commentary on C.222; For the emphatic ἀληθῶς here, and in C.312, see Robert, Hellenica XI-XII, loc.cit.
Bibliography: Barnett in Wright, 1957, mentioned Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1959.512; more fully, with readings by Reynolds, SEG 18.750.c, PHI 324452, whence mentioned by Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1959.512, Reynolds, 1959 note 14, discussed Robert, 1960a, 553 note 4, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.840; Stucchi, 1981, 104, n.96, whence SEG 31.1576
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text and worker (Department of Antiquities, E. 1825)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Text (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. View (2008, H.Walda)