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.
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).