Description: Fragment from the bottom of a marble panel:
w:
0.09 x h:
0.12 x d:
0.05.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably first century CE : 0.015.
Date: Probably first century
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Agora, probably the Agora Square; photographed in 1925
as from the Agora.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
1: The top of the second letter is shaved off, but Ι is rather close to Ω to be interpreted as Τ.English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ]Cyren[aeans? . . . ] also [ . . . ] benefit[s? . . . ] ?for themselves [ . . .
Commentary
Apparently a fragment from a decree of honours to one or more benefactors.
Line 2: The koine form of language is unlikely in a civic decree at this date; the text may, therefore, express the gratitude of an organised group within the city, such as the Jewish politeuma (for which, at Berenike see B.75 and B.76). See for a possibly similar document at Cyrene C.39.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment (1925, Department of Antiquities, E.300)