Fragmentary honours
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably first century BCE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], A.20, whence [...] 62.1792.

[...]άρχω [...] χάριν καὶ τᾶς ποτὶ τὰς θεὰς εὐσεβέας Κυράναιοι

Translation

. son or daughter of [ . . . -]archos [for their ?virtue] and their piety towards [the goddesses (?gods)], set up by the Cyrenaeans.

Commentary

Line 1 probably gives the end of the patronymic of the person honoured.

Line 2: the standard practice at the likely date was to single out qualities for praise, something like εὔνοια or ἀρετή with the piety which we seem to have here - JMR has assumed that here it was piety to the goddesses, but more commonly it was piety to all gods, therefore τὸς θεός.

Line 4 contained the name of those who paid the honour, and one would expect ΚΥΡΑΝΑΙΟΙ, the Cyrenaeans; but the surviving letters are not absolutely clear. For civic honours paid in the Sanctuary see on C.445.