Description: Block of limestone
(w:
0.86 x h:
0.51; depth not measurable).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face; the end of line 1 was erased.
Letters: Capitals, first-second century CE; 0.05.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Street of Battos, built into a wall near the Ridotta Spoleto,
between the Agora and the House of Jason Magnus: photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[For the safety (etc.) of the Emperor Caes]ar [[ . . . ]] [Augustus and his whole] household ?Phaoni-[ constructed/dedicated something with] all its adornment.
Commentary
Line 1: The emperor's name has been erased; the letter-forms suggest that he was Nero or Domitian, but Commodus is also possible.
Line 2: The reading is clear and the letters must be part of the name of the donor or dedicator - possibly from a nomen Φαώνιος (Favonius), or a cognomen. A praenomen or an abbreviated nomen, e.g. Κλ(αύδιος), must have stood in the gap before it.
Line 3: The reading suggested by Robert, loc. cit.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 76, (from T.XIII 9v), whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.562.
Text constituted from: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, H.28)