Description: Sundial of white marble
(dimensions not recorded ).
Text: Inscribed on front of the plinth (w:
0.40 x h:
0.16 x d:
0.15)
Letters: 0.01 to 0.015; lunar sigma, but square epsilon, delta with protruding right bar, some omicrons very small, upsilon with huge
serifs, horse-shoe omega.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Balagrae:
no findspot reported.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum; seen by Dobias-Lalou in 1977
(Inv. no. 239)
Apparatus
French translation
Translation source: Dobias-Lalou, 1993
Consacré à Iatros et Iasô, dieux sauveurs, par Markos Antônios Sekoundos.
English translation
Translation source: Dobias-Lalou, 1993
Dedicated to Iatros and Iaso, saviour gods, by Marcus Antonius Secundus.
Commentary
For other texts associating Iatros and Iaso see C.228, M.185, C.756, M.190, M.191, and Dobias-Lalou, loc.cit.
It is probably this inscription that Oliverio mentioned (loc cit above) when publishing C.228, although there he restored Ἀσκληπίωι instead of the better Ἰατρῶι
Bibliography: Dobias-Lalou, 1993, 4, p. 34 (no image), whence SEG 43.1190. Mentioned, SECir, 1961-1962 note on 165, p. 316.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds III.63.1)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds III.63.2)
Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds IX.34)