Building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fourth century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

Described, [...] 418 ; published [...], 12 and pl. LXI, whence [...] 27.1137, [...] 1977.842. Discussed by [...] , whence [...] 38.1867.

[...]ἐπὶ τῆϲ πανευδαίμονοϲ βαϲιλείας [...]ου τῶν αἰωνίων Αὐγούϲτων [...] [...] Φλάουιοϲ Πατρίκιοϲ Βιταλιανὸϲ ὁ λαμπρότατοϲ ἡγεμών [...] βαϲιλιι[...]ι

Apparatus

Translations

. . . ] during the wholly happy reign of [ . . ? 30-35 . . . ] perpetual Augusti [ . . .] Flavius Patricius Vitalianus, the most eminent [?governor . . . ] ?the imperial [ . . .

Commentary

Oliverio (loc. cit.) wrote as if the stones were part of the structure of the apse, but this is certainly not the case.

For the formula cf. e.g. OGIS 722 (at PHI 219135), of the joint reign of Valentinian, Valens and Gratian (367-378), to which, perhaps, this text also belongs since considerable building activity in Cyrenaica is attested in their time (see, at Ptolemais P.122, P.136, P.148, and at Teucheira T.17, with T.115 and T.249). If their names are restored here 30 letters, or 36 (with the insertion of καἱ twice), are missing before ΟΥ.

Line 2: PLRE II, Fl. Patricius Vitalianus. A Vitalianus was dux Libyae in October 417 (Cod. Theod. VIII.I.16, PLRE II, Vitalianus 1) but if he is the same man the title used here shows that at the time of this inscription he had not yet reached that position.