English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): For the security [(e.g.) and victory and permanent presence of] Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadri[an August]us, son of [deified Trajan, victor in Parth]ia, [grandson of deifiesd Nerva, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus), holding tribunic]ian power [for the ? time, consul for the ? (etc.).

(b): . . . ] constructed the arc[ades] from the found[ations . . . ] ?the mosaic [ . . .

(c): . . . the conse]cration was by the most excellent [proconsul . . .] Klaudi[- . . . Me]nandro[s . . ] Olympia[s . . .

Commentary

The reconstructions are largely to illustrate the possibilities; there are further fragments with parts of letters.

a: Ten fragments: it is possible to reconstruct from the text an opening formula, which contains the name of Hadrian: so 117 - 138 CE.

b: Six fragments: parts of a description of the construction activities

b.ii: There was a mosaic floor in the portico.

c: Five fragments: elements of a concluding formula (i) and elements of personal names (ii - iv). ii might be from the name of the proconsul, which was in the genitive case; or all four might be from the name of a donor

c.iii: Since a Cyrenean would probably use a Doric genitive this name is probably in the nominative case and therefore that of a donor, Menandros; the case of a woman's name Ολυμπίας is known - she may have been a fellow donor. The nomen Κλαύδι[ος may refer to either of these or another donor or to the proconsul whose name was the genitive case.

Images

   Fig. 1. a: Fragment 2 (Reynolds IX.15)

   Fig. 2. a: Fragments 5, 6 (Reynolds IX.22)

   Fig. 3. a: Fragments 5, 6 (Reynolds IX.22)

   Fig. 4. a: Fragment 6 (Reynolds IX.9)

   Fig. 5. a: Fragments 8 and 3 (Reynolds IX.13)

   Fig. 6. a: Fragments 10, 7 (Reynolds IX.12)

   Fig. 7. b.i: Fragment 13 (Reynolds IX.23)

   Fig. 8. b.i: Fragment 14 (Reynolds IX.11)

   Fig. 9. b.i: Fragment 15 (Reynolds IX.18

   Fig. 10. b.ii: Fragment 16; fragment 29 and fragments (Reynolds IX.19).

   Fig. 11. b.ii: Fragment 16; fragment 29 and fragments (Reynolds IX.19)

   Fig. 12. c.i: Fragment 17 (Reynolds IX.17)

   Fig. 13. c.i: Fragment 18 (Reynolds IX.20)

   Fig. 14. c.i: Fragment 18 (Reynolds IX.20)

   Fig. 15. c.ii: Fragment 19 (Reynolds IX.25)

   Fig. 16. c.iii: Fragment 20 (Reynolds IX.16)

   Fig. 17. c.iii: Fragment 20 (Reynolds XII.92.1)

   Fig. 18. c.iv: Fragment 21 (Reynolds IX.10)

   Fig. 19. Fragment 24 (Reynolds IX.21)

   Fig. 20. Fragments 31, 25 (Reynolds IX.30)

   Fig. 21. Fragments 31, 25, 27 (Reynolds III.62.3)

   Fig. 22. Fragment 27, 28 (Reynolds IX.24)

   Fig. 23. Fragment 26

   Fig. 24. Fragment 26

   Fig. 25. Fragment 30

   Fig. 26. Fragment 31

   Fig. 27. Fragments 32, 33 (Reynolds IX.14)