Description: Marble
panel, the upper left corner missing,
reconstructed from three fragments (w:
0.265 x h:
0.17 x d:
0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one
face.
Letters: Augustan-first century CE: 0.008 – 0.01.
Date: Augustan or first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene, found before 1941: Findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
1: Pugliese-Carratelli suggested [Ἀπόλλων]ος ἱαρε[ὺς], or -]ος Ἱαρε- SECir, 1961-1962
4: μ[α]ρχω SECir, 1961-1962
6: Καλλιμ[άχω] SECir, 1961-1962
7: τῶ Καλ[ SECir, 1961-1962
8: Ἡρακλειδ[α]ς SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
? When - ] was priest: [ . . . ] of Andreas, [ . . . ] of Theuchrestos, [ . . . ] of [-]emarchos, [ . . . ? of] Aristodamos, [ . . . ? of] Kallimachos the (scil. son) of Kallimachos; Herakleidas son of Dionysios, dedicated the (i.e. statue of) Priapos
Commentary
Line 1: Probably the date by citation of the name of the eponymous priest of Apollo.
Line 9: On the cult of Priapus, most commonly associated with gardens, see H. Herter, De Priapo. The group of probably six men who joined in this dedication may have been official, for example a college of Nomophylakes, but the type and scale of the dedication suggests a private association: cf. the Priapistae at Gortyn, Inscr. Cret.IV.266 (available at PHI 200708)
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 167, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.572.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum; Reynolds VI.73)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds I.78)