Description: Limestone block, broken at the left edge, w:
91.10 x h:
0.38 x d:
0.45).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is very worn.
Letters: Probably first century CE; line 1, 0.12; line 2, 0.09.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, beside the Apollonia Road, near the circular Tomb (Cassels N.1);
found before 1915.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . for so-and-so, priest, augur, co[nsul . . . by meansd of] Mamiianus, proc[onsul . . .
Commentary
Probably re-used in the Circular Tomb. The text is more likely to be honorary than funerary.
Line 1: Probably co[(n)s(uli)]; if so, in view of the eminence of the agent employed to produce the monument, the honorand might very well be a member of the imperial family e.g. Caius Caesar, Germanicus, or Drusus or Tiberius Caesar. Applebaum preferred co[loniae, dated the text in the second century and suggested a reference to the arrangements made for the repopulation of Cyrene after Jewish Revolt.
Line 2 Probably pro[co(n)s(ulem)] rather than pro[curatorem], since there is no other evidence for the presence of a procurator in Cyrenaica before the reign of Septimius Severus (C.183).
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915, 179, whence AE 1915.110, whence EDH HD029457; Rowe, 1956 10, n.1; mentioned Applebaum, 1951 181f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
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