Description: Broken marble statue base (w:
0.90 x h:
0.36 x d:
0.80).
Text: Inscribed on one face (surviving, w:
0.38 x h:
0.13);
there are holes on the top for the feet of a statue.
Letters: First century BCE - Augustan: 0.03.
Date: 8 BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Agora; probably found in 1916.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Standing in the Agora Square near C.145, C.126.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[Emperor Caesar], son of a divinity, for the fourt[eenth time (i.e. acclaimed)] Imperator, [so-and-so (i.e. dedicated his statue)] to Hermes and Herakles [ . . ..
Commentary
Augustus in 8 BCE For Tiberius' victory over the Sygambri see Dio LV.6 (at Perseus). Since the acclamation appears to be the only title given the monument was perhaps erected to celebrate the victory.
The dedicators to these gods are likely to have been ephebes.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, II.54.1)
Fig. 2. View (Joyce Reynolds, II.54.1)
Fig. 3. View (Joyce Reynolds, II.54.2)
Fig. 4. View in context (Joyce Reynolds, II.54.2)