Description: Architrave blocks and fragments each originally w:
2.06. a. Three adjoining pieces with moulding above
(together, w:
1.45 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.64).
b. Fragment from the bottom of a block
(w:
0.53 x h:
0.17 x d:
0.67; width of the surviving surface, 0.32).
c. Block with moulding above, cut down for re-use
(w:
1.03 x h:
0.46 x d:
0.59; visible width, 0.50).
d. Broken block with the upper moulding chipped away
(w:
2.01 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.60).
e. Damaged block with the upper moulding chipped away and the surface of the face removed at the right end
(w:
2.01 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.55).
f. Damaged block with adjoining fragment cut or broken away above
(w:
1.885 x h:
0.30 x d:
0.56).
g. Damaged block, the surface broken away above
(w:
2.06 x h:
0.37; depth not measurable).
h. Fragment, lost above (no measurements)
Perhaps to be associated with C.45, found nearby.
Text: Inscribed 0.10 above the lower edge of the block.
Letters: Second century CE; 0.24.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
a and b. Cyrene:
Stoa of Hermes and Herakles: found before 1941 in the internal portico.
c. Byzantine City Wall: found in 1962
lying half buried among debris fallen from the wall in which it had probably been reused.
d and f. Stoa of Hermes and Herakles: found in 1962 among debris fallen from the outer wall
in which it had probably been reused.
e. Stoa of Hermes and Herakles: found in 1941 among the debris fallen from the outer wall
in which it had probably been reused.
g. Byzantine Tower: found in 1962, reused in a wall facing east.
Original location: Stoa of Hermes and Herakles:
the inscribed limestone architrave of the internal portico.
Last recorded location:
Stoa of Hermes and Herakles:
a: in situ, as fallen from the portico, together with the frieze block containing the metope and triglyphs; b, c, d, e, f
and g: loose (2008).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
The blocks clearly come from the opening of a text in honour of an emperor: cf. τhe formula ὑπὲρ Αὐτοκρατορος Καισαρος ... νεικας και σωτηρίας καὶ αἰωνιου διαμονας καὶ τοῦ πάντος αὐτοῦ οἰκοῦ.
Of the emperor's name there survives only ΝΕΡ and while Νέρων is possible, the letter forms suggest a second century date and therefore Νέρουα, probably from the filiation. If the stoa is the main gymnasium, whose dilapidated state is mentioned by Hadrian , the earliest emperor likely is Antoninus Pius.
Bibliography: a, d, e and f : Gasperini, 1967a, 53 and fig. 224, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1972.622a; b: Gasperini, 1967a, 54 and fig. 225
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. a (Reynolds VII.2)
Fig. 2. a
Fig. 3. b (Reynolds VII.3)
Fig. 4. c and h
Fig. 5. d (Reynolds VII.5)
Fig. 6. Block d (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 7. Block d (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 8. Block d (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 9. Block d, view (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 10. Block e (Reynolds VII.1)
Fig. 11. Block e (Reynolds VII.6)
Fig. 12. Block e, left end (1961, Joyce Reynolds II.13)
Fig. 13. Block e, right end
Fig. 14. Blocks f and d (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 15. Blocks f and d (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 16. Block f (Reynolds VII.4)
Fig. 17. Block f (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 18. View of g