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).
Images
Fig. 1. Overview, with Block 1, as discovered (1934, August 24, Department of Antiquities, F.2551)
Fig. 2. All blocks assembled (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Block 1, face (Joyce Reynolds, I.72.ii)
Fig. 4. Block 1 (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. Block 2, face (Joyce Reynolds, I.72.i)
Fig. 6. Block 2, face (Joyce Reynolds, I.72)
Fig. 7. Block 2 (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 8. Block 3, left end (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 9. Block 3, right end (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 10. Block 4 (2008, H.Walda)