Description: Fragment from the right corner of an inscribed marble moulding
(w:
0.535 x h:
0.215 x d:
0.325); the top rough and slightly converse.
There is a hole in the bottom with a small channel running from it to the edge (for lead); the back roughly broken and hacked,
and left
edge fractured.
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding
(inscribed face w:
0.31 x h:
0.087).
Letters: First-second century CE: 0.015.
Date: First to second century.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Perhaps North Necropolis, ?Wadi bin Turchia, re-used as a doorstep in a house "on the upper lane, just beyond and to the West of the Wadi descending
from the
Fountain of Apollo"; recorded in 1910/11, and removed to the Norton Expedition's camp.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene (1911)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] constructed the statues.
Commentary
It could have fallen from the Sanctuary. All details are taken from Robinson.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 44, and photograph, fig. 32, whence Sammelbuch, I.5891.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1911, Norton 17)