Description: Marble block with an oval projection above, broken below (w:
0.155 x h:
0.10 x d:
0.055).
Text: a inscribed on one face; b: graffito below the first line of a.
Letters: Irregular, and roughly cut. a: 0.02 - 0.025; b: perhaps 0.01; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Findspot unrecorded. Found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
a,.5: ΥΙΤ SECir, 1961-1962
b: omitteḍ SECir, 1961-1962; Α, Τ, ω Fraser, 1962; ?[Κ]α[β]ίρωι Fabbricotti, 2007; ΑΤΩΙ jmr; ἀλιτηρίωι from the squeeze cdl
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): For the Father, (b: avenging) God, Samothracian, immortal, highest.
Commentary
The reading of b suggested by Fabbricotti is very attractive, but cannot easily be accommodated with the traces.
For this combination of titles see the full discussion by Fraser. For the cult of the Highest God see Stephen Mitchell, "Hypsistos", with bibliography, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin 2016), available at Academia.
Bibliography: Fraser, 1962, 2, 25-7 and plate, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.561 and, simultaneously, SECir, 1961-1962, 168, from both of which SEG 20.724, PHI 324484. Republished Fabbricotti, 2007, 13, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2008.601, SEG 57.2017.5.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds, Catherine Dobias-Lalou).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds I.22)