Dedication to an emperor
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century CE
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Bibliography

[...], 329.2 and pl. LXIV. 5., whence [...] 1968.541, whence [...] 015575; [...], 39 and fig. 221

[...] pontifici imperatori [...] curante [...]o praefecto cohortis [...]

Translations

. . . high pri]est, acclaimed imperator twice, [ . . responsibility of x], prefect of the cohort [ . . .

Commentary

Line 1: The apparent erasure may be fortuitous. It is not clear whether it has destroyed a figure or two letters incorporating uprights. The subject is probably a son of the imperial house - perhaps Tiberius before the death of Augustus (he was pontifex by 16 BCE, imperator in 9 BCE, imperator II in 7 BCE) or Germanicus (pontifex by 18 CE and imperator II in the same year.

Gasperini rejects pontifi]ci and prefers a title, e.g. munifi]ci refering to subsequent imp which would be a genitive and preceded by e.g. sumptibus or the like.

Line 2: Possibly M. Sufenas Proculus , who set up C.118, C.225 and C.226, in honour of Tiberius and is described in C.118, line 4 as praefectus cohortis Lusitanorum: but he is unlikely to have been the only cohort commander in Cyrene during the relevant period.