Description: Four limestone architrave blocks with moulding above and centrally,
from an Ionic entablature. Three are complete; the second survives only at the right end
(each originally w:
1.76 x h:
0.50 x d:
0.36).
Text: Inscribed on the two fasciae.
The inscribed surface is completely lost on block 4.
Letters: Second century CE; 0.07; traces of rubrication paint.
Date: 138-161 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
west of the Grotto of the Priests, fallen onto the
road from the Fountain Terrace to the Theatre; found in 1934.
Original location:
Stepped Portico.
Last recorded location:
Standing to the north west of the Temple of Apollo (2008).
Apparatus
2: αὐτοκατορος: the first Α written over Ι, the second written over ΟΣetranslation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
For the [?eternal permanence] of Emperor [Caesar] Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus P[ius . . . so-and so] acting as priest, [? built] from the [income] of A[pollo]
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).