Description: Right end of a marble panel
moulded above, reconstructed from four fragments
(w:
0.45 x h:
0.44 x d:
0.06-0.07).
The left edge has been roughly trimmed, presumably to facilitate re-use.
Text: Inscribed on one face, below the moulding
Letters: Probably third century: 0.04; lunate epsilon; triangular stops.
Date: Probably third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
found before 1941, findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Caesar ? ] son of the deified [? . . . Chief] Priest [holding tribunician power for the ? time, consul] for the third time, [. . . ? gave . . . with] the statue. [ The consecration was made by ? the most excellent] proconsul.
Commentary
The emperor is presented in the nominative, as being responsible for a benefaction of some kind.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Left side (Joyce Reynolds, I. 24)
Fig. 2. Reassembled fragments
Fig. 3. Reassembled fragments