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C.437. Fragmentary building inscription

Description: Three inscribed marble epistyle blocks, recomposed from fragments, from the five which made up the epistyle of the temple.
Text: Inscribed on one face in two lines
Letters: First century CE: Line 1 0.14., line 2 0.12

Date: 4-14 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Extramural Temple of Demeter, lying fallen from the columns.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Extramural Temple of Demeter.

Interpretive

[M(arcus) Sufen]as ((stop)) M(arci) ((stop)) f(ilius) ((stop)) Proculus ((stop)) pro ((stop)) lega[tus]
[Imp(eratore) Augus]to ((stop)) Caesare [((stop)) .. ? ..]itum suoqu[e no]mine ((stop)) [f(aciendum) c(urauit) ]

Diplomatic

[......]AS • M • F • PROCULUS • PRO • LEGA[...]
[.........]TO • CAESARE[... ? ..]ITUMSUOQU[...]MINE • [..]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[M(arcus) Sufen]as Proculus, son of M(arcus) legate for Emperor Augustus Caesar [ . . .] and in his name was responsible for the construction.

Commentary

For M. Sufenas Proculus, PIR2, S.965, see commentary on C.9. He appears also in C.118, C.225 and C.226, all cut between CE 4 and 14, and possibly C.436, undated

Bibliography: Paci, 2010; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 230.
Text constituted from: Publication (Roueché).

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