Description: Marble stele with dowel hole on top
(w:
0.49 x h:
0.60 x d:
0.46).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped at the left side and broken away for about half its width at the right.
The inscription clearly began on a lost feature, presumably a capital attached to the top.
Letters: Second-third century: line 1 0.045; lines 2,4, 0.04; lines 3,8, 0.03; lines 5-7, 0.035; lunate epsilon, cursive sigma.
Date: Second to third centuries
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Found in 1955 between the Market theatre and the
Severan Propylaeum.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
6:
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
T(itos) Phlabios (i.e. T(itus) Flavius) M[- . . . ] (scil. dedicated) the little temple of the People of the most splendid Κyrene, the metropolis, from his own resources.
Commentary
The dowel hole at top served possibly as attachment of a crowning feature or of another block, but it is off-centre and may simply have held a cramp to fasten the stele to a wall.
Line 1: There may have been another title above so that the reference was to the Tyche of the city.
Line 4: An alternative, Κυρη[ναίων, would require an article for which there seems to be not enough space.
Line 6: ναΐ[σκον is also possible.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976-1977, 3, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1024, SEG 35.1723
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
