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

[...], 211 and pl. XXXVI. 1, also fig. opp. p. 212 and fig. 132 (drawings), whence [...] 1968.539, whence [...] 015569; [...], 25-27 and fig. 209

[...]lus pro consul de sua pequnia faciendum curauit [...] faciendum que curauit

Translation

. . . -]us, proconsul, with his own money had it made.[ . ? . ] saw to ?the work.

Commentary

Gasperini suggests, attractively, that this is Q. Lucanius Proculus (PIR2 L 0348), proconsul under Augustus in or after 12 BCE, also in C.151, C.319, q.v., but of the first surviving letter all that we can see is part of an upright, so that the identification must remain conjectural. In arguing that the work must be earlier than CE 3-4 as the earliest year in which the cult of Augustus is securely attested at Cyrene he fails to take into account C.95 lines 3f. which shows that there was a priesthood of August there by BCE 17-16; there is in any case no need to assume that the priesthood could not exist without this particular cult centre.

Line 1: For de/ex pecunia sua, 'from his own money' see also M.46, IRT 605).