Description: Rock outer wall of a cave.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel
Letters: Augustan: not easily measurable; line 3 widely spaced in order to fill the whole line-length.
Date: 18/17 BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Spring of Kura/Cave of the Nymphs, beside the entrance: first recorded in
1714.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Spring of Kura/Cave of the Nymphs (2008).
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 13. Dionysios (scil. son) of Sotas, serving as priest, restored the spring.
Commentary
Line 1: Year 13, if the letter forms are correctly dated here and in GVCyr 24 this should be 13 of the Actian Era, so 18/17 BCE; there is no ground for accepting the date in the second century CE proposed in SEG.
Line 1: Dionysios: probably also in GVCyr 24, line 3 and no doubt ancestor of Σώτας Διονυσίου, priest of Apollo in CE 71-72, see C.49, line 11 and C.141, line 1
Bibliography: Lucas, 1712, 6, p.419; Della Cella, 1819, 143; Letronne, 1828, V, pp.263-4; Pacho, 1827, LXIII.2, and Letronne, at p.393; Beechey, 1828, 427; from all these CIG, Vol.III, 5134, whence SGDI, 4842; Cervelli, 1825 p.27 and pl. I; Smith-Porcher, 1864, 27; Oliverio, 1927a, 242 and pl 39, fig. 19, whence Boehringer, 1929 398, SEG 9.169, PHI 324020; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 216.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).