Restoration inscription
created: Transcription (Goodchild, Reynolds).
source date: First century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 112 (from notebook XV, page 81, dated 30 September), whence [...], 1964.568; see further [...], 1656-7, note 6, whence [...] 52.1840.

Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Μάρκω Ἀντωνίωι τῶι Φλάμμαι Γεμέλλωι υἱὸς Μάξιμος ἱαρεὺς ἐκάθαρε ἐκ τᾶν τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος προσόδων

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: Μάξ[ι]μος [: Pugliese-Carratelli prints [Κ]ασ[κελ]λιος but cf. the adjacent ?copy C.333]]

Translations

M(arkos) Antonios MaximosM(arcus) Antonius Maximus, son of M(arkos) Antonios Gemellos M(arcus) Antonius Gemellus son of Phlamma Flamma, priest, cleansed (the tank) from the resources of Apollo.

Commentary

His priesthood is not dated, but several members of this family were prominent in the later first century CE It is possible that Flamma should be identified with M.Antonius Flamma governor of Crete and Cyrene in CE 69, PIR2, A 831.

Line 2 the sense is probably 'to clean out' cf. Xenophon Oeconomicus 20.11 "to clear the weeds" (at Perseus. The tank does in fact tend to silt up; but a ritual purification may be involved as well. .