Fragmentary imperial honours
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 161-192 CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
availability: Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/) All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/

Bibliography

[...]ς θεῶ [...] [...] Ἀντωνεῖνοϲ [...] [...]ταν θεϲπι[...] [...] ματροπολ[...]

Translation

. . . ] of deified [ . . . ] Antoninus [ . . . ] metropolis [ . . .

Commentary

The elements of a text honouring the emperor; this could be Antoninus Pius (138 -161), Marcus Aurelius (161-180) or Commodus (172 - 192).

Lines 1-2: The titles could be recovered on the following lines: If Antonius Pius, [Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεῶ Ἁδριανῶ ὑιὸ]ς θεῶ [Τραιανῶ υἱωνὸς] / [Τῖτος Αἴλιος Ἁδριανὸς Ἀν]τωνεῖνος [Εὐσεβῆς Σεβαστὸς]; if Marcus Aurelius [Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεῶ Ἀντωνείνω ὑιὸ]ς θεῶ [Ἁδριανῶ υἱωνὸς] / [Θεῶ Τραιανῶ ἔκγονος Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Ἀν]τωνεῖνος [Σεβαστὸς ....]; if Commodus [Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεῶ Μ(άρκω) Αὐρηλίω ὑιὸ]ς θεῶ [Ἀντωνείνω υἱωνὸς] / [Λ(ούκιος) Αἴλιος Αὐρήλιος Κόμμοδος Ἀν]τωνεῖνος [Σεβαστὸς ..6..]

Line 3: perhaps referring to an oracle or to a miracle, but the verb θεσπίζω is also used of the issue of imperial decrees, cf. OGIS 521, line 9.

Line 4: Clearly part of the title ματρόπολις regularly given to Cyrene in the second half of the second century: C.119 (the earliest dateable example, of 161 CE), C.163, C.167, C.173, C.236, C.307, C.420.