Description: Fragment from the left side of a marble
stele (w:
0.15 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.11)
Text: Inscribed on the surviving
face, which is damaged on all edges.
Letters: Augustan to first century CE : line 1, 0.01; line 2, 0.018; lines 3-4, 0.015.
Date: Augustan to first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: found before 1941; findspot
unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
1: [ . . . ]ναίω[ . . . . . . ] SECir, 1961-1962
2: [ . . . . . . ] ἱερεὺς [ . . . . . . ] SECir, 1961-1962
3: Καί]σαρος [ . . . . . . ] SECir, 1961-1962
4: [ . . . ]ΡΥΜ[ . . . ] (Υ sembra Ψ) SECir, 1961-1962; ΡΥΜ, with a small accidental stroke just between the two arms of the Y, but not so deeply cut (reading from the squeeze)
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . of the Cyre[naeans [ . . . In the] priesthood [of Apollo of so-and-so, and of Emperor] Caesar [deified Augustus of such and such . . .
Commentary
For dating by the priests of Apollo and of Augustus, see also C.145, C.737 and for the name of Augustus in the title C.737.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 189 p.323.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum; Reynolds VI.51)
Fig. 2. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum; Reynolds VIII.80)
Fig. 3. C.691 and C.659, standing on IGCyr084000 (1961, Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 4. Face
Fig. 5. Face (Department of Antiquities, H.31)