Description: Major part of white marble base, with a circular depression on top,
broken above, moulded below, damaged along all edges
(w:
0.50 x h:
0.24 x d:
0.40).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century. Letters, apparently drawn freehand, with ovals for the circles: line 1, 0.03; lines 2,4, 0.02; line
3, 0.025.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
very probably the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore;
recorded in 1916.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Claudia Venosta, di Claudio Cartistene figlia la (statua della) Vergine, a proprie spese, ed il tempio (consacrò)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2012
Claudia Venusta, daughter of Claudius Kartisthenes, gave the Parthenos from her own funds, and the temple.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Kl(audia) Benosta (i.e. Cl(audia) Venusta), daughter of Kl(audios) (i.e. Cl(audius)) Kartisthenes (scil. gave) the Parthenos from her own funds, and the temple.
Commentary
Claudia Venusta and her father also figure in C.495, C.456, C.497 and C.498 which record other dedications that she made, almost certainly in this Sanctuary. See further on C.456. Mohamed and Reynolds questioned the normally proposed identity of Kore and Parthenos, suggesting that Parthenos was Athena, but I have come to feel that rash. Mohamed and Reynolds questioned the normally proposed identity of Kore and Parthenos, suggesting that Parthenos was Athena, but I have come to feel that rash.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 71 (63), pl. XIX, fig 26, whence SEG 9.163, PHI 324014; Reynolds, 2012, B.5.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VIII.17)