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

[...], 230-231 and pl. XXXIX.3, whence [...] 1968.538, whence [...] 015566; [...], 35 and fig. 218

[...] [...]li[...] [...] proconsul [...] per ueteranos Augusti [...] faciendum curauit

Translation

. . . ]LI [ . . .] proconsul [ . . . by veter]ans of Augustus [ . . .] was responsible for the construction.

Commentary

line 2 Gasperini's restoration of the name and title of C. Clodius Vestalis, for whom see commetary on C.113, is very attractive, but not quite certain; among difficulties in his version are omission of the filiation from the name (contrast C.322) and the unusual addition of the title praet(or) before p]roco(n)s(ul). This is not adequately justified by comparison with IRT 338' lines 13-15 which may well have been drafted by a Lepcitanian ignorant of procedure, whereas the Cyrene text should have originated in the proconsul's office). Tt might be possible to obviate both, by restoring: [C. Clodius C.F. V]e[s]/[talis p]oco(n)s(ul) , but the division of the cognomen is unhappy.

line 3 the only obvious supplement seems to be [per veter]anos August[i], and for the use of veterans on public works in Cyrenaica see M.227, under Trajan. There is no independent evidence for the presence and use of veterans in Cyrenaica in the first century CE;, but it would not be unlikely if the governor were carrying out repairs and extensions of public buildings in the aftermath of the Marmaric War.