IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.174. Fragmentary dedication

Description: Fragments from panels of variegated marble: i rectangular (w: 0.34 x h: 0.34 x d: 0.015); ii and iii from a circular panel.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second centuries: 0.04.

Date: First to second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Valley Street, Temple of Commodus, among fallen debris; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

i
καὶ ὕστ̣ε-
ρον ἐπι-
καθιερώ-
σαντος
( vac. 1 line)
ii
[---]Ω ( vac. 2) [---]
[---]ΤΩ ( vac. 1)[---]
iii
( vac. 1) Ν[---]
( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

i
ΚΑΙΥΣ.Ε
ΡΟΝΕΠΙ
ΚΑΘΙΕΡΩ
ΣΑΝΤΟΣ
     vacat
ii
[---]Ω    [---]
[---]ΤΩ  [---]
iii
  Ν[---]
      

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): . . . ] and later having further consecrated. (ii and iii are not translatable)

Commentary

There must have been at least one other panel above this, presumably recording the restoration of the building whose re-dedication is referred to here. There are also some fragments of an inscribed circular panel of the same marble which was perhaps related; but they are too small to give a single word of text.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Text i (Reynolds VI.5)

   Fig. 2. Texts iii and ii (Reynolds VI.4)

   Fig. 3. Assemblage