Description: Fragment of a reddish (so Oliverio) marble
stele
w:
90.25 x h:
0.18 x d:
0.075
Text: Inscribed on one
face.
Letters: First-second century: 0.03.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Findspot unrecorded.
Found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
1: υἱὸς SECir, 1961-1962
2: Τελεσ[φόρος SECir, 1961-1962
3: Ἀπόλλων]ος ἱ[ερεύς ? SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] son [ . . priest] conducting initiation [ . . .
Commentary
The only other known use of this title in the Roman period is in C.263, line 1, where it is applied to a priest of Apollo whose name is lost; he was followed on the stone there by Ti. Claudius Istros son of Phaidimos, priest in CE 100/101 whose name would fit the traces surviving here in line 3. See further commentary on C.263
Line 3: perhaps Oliverio was right in restoring the title of priest of Apollo; but the traces may also be from another name.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 13 (from T.XI.14).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. From left, two unidentified fragments, C.652 (Department of Antiquities, F. 1730)