Description: Limestone block (w:
0.91 x h:
0.32 x d:
0.58).
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: Fourth-fith century; 0.022, cursive omega, one alpha with a straight crossbar, and one with a slanting crossbar.
Date: IV-V cent.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, in a wall behind the Central Church, on the Southern side; found in 1958.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
This is likely to be from a building inscription, probably (from the scale) recording emperors. Perhaps [τ]ῶν καλ[λινίκων: so e.g. τῶν καλιν[ίκων ἡμῶν δεσ]ποτῶν of Justinian and Theodora PHI 319550, of Justinian alone IGLS IV. 1809 (PHI 244063). The epithet is also used of martyrs: so e.g.. IGLS V, 2530 (PHI 244809).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.90)