IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.689. Fragmentary official document

Description: Fragment from the upper left corner of a marble stele slightly flanged outwards at the left side (w: 0.06 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.08).
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Probably first century BCE - first century CE; 0.01.

Date: Probably first century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: photographed in 1924; findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

[..]ỌỌ[---]
adver[su---]
ueri f(- - -) Ị[---]
quot I[---]
5proui[---]
oporṭ[---]-
-timq[ue ---]
donạ [---]
et me [---]
10eṭ OḄỤ[---]
ad O[---]
eor[um ---]
Plac[et ---]
A[---]
15[------]

Diplomatic

[··]..[---]
ADVER[..---]
UERIF.[---]
QUOTI[---]
5PROUI[---]
OPOR.[---]
TIMQ[..---]
DON.[---]
ETME[---]
10E.O..[---]
ADO[---]
EOR[..---]
PLAC[..---]
A[---]
15[------]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

It is possible that there was another inscribed stone above. The inscription appears to be the preamble to a formal decision whose text begins in line 13; since a senatus consultum should begin with the word c(ensuerunt), this was probably given either by an emperor or by a proconsul.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).