Honours for Hadrian
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 10th Dec. CE 128 - 9th Dec. 129
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

One central fragment: [...], 76 (68), p. 108, pl. XXI, fig 31, whence [...] 9.54; two central fragments: [...], A.3, whence [...], 1951.244; four fragments: [...], VI.c, p. 164 and fig. 21 all surviving fragments, whence [...], 1960.438, [...] 17.809, [...] 324420; [...], B.5, see also [...], 1960.438, whence [...] 18.731, [...] 324435. Discussed, [...] , whence [...] 44.1536; by [...], 181

Αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα θεῶ Τραιανῶ Παρθικῶ υἱὸν θεῶ Νέρουα υἱωνὸν Τραιανὸν Ἁδριανὸν Σεβαστὸν ἀρχιερῆ μέγιστον δαμαρχικᾶς ἐξουσίας τὸ ιγ ὕπατον τὸ γ πατέρα πατρίδος κτίσταν καὶ τροφῆ καὶ νομοθέταν ἁ πόλις ἁ Κυραναίων

Apparatus

[The first edition to make use of all the fragments was Gasperini]

[^a1: at 4: τροφ[έα] | τροφ[ῆ]]

Translations

L'imperatore Cesare del divino Traiano partico figlio, del divino Nerva nipote, Traiani Adriano Augusto, pontefice massimo, investito della potestà tribunizia per la [13a] volta, console per la 3a volta, padre della patria, fondatore e salvatore la cittadinanza dei Cirenei (ha onorato).

Emperor Caesar, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the thirteenth time, consul for [the third time, father] of the country, founder and nourisher and lawgiver: the city of the Cyrenaeans (set up his statue).

Commentary

For the titles in line 4 applied to Hadrian elsewhere, cf. IG VII.70-72 (at PHI 143546, 143547, 143548) from Megara. Here they clearly refer to help given to Cyrene in the years after the Jewish Revolt. There is no other record of Hadrianic lawgiving at Cyrene.