Building inscription from the Basilica
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 119-138
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

[...], D.1; [...], 37 and pl. VIII; [...] 162, IV.b; [...], B.4 with fig. 17, whence [...] 1974.672, whence [...] 011679; from these [...], 19, whence C. Barron in [...] Judaism and Rome; discussed, [...], 180.

Imperator Caesar diui Traiani Parthici filius diui Nervae nepos Traianus Hadrianus Augustus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate[...] consul III basilicam [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 2: . . . Trai[an]us [; Smallwood follows Applebaum.]]

Translations

Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of the deified Trajan Parthicus, grandson of the deified Nerva, pontifex maximus, with tribunician power for the (?) time, in his third consulship, ordered the basilica, [destroyed in the Jewish riot, to be restored for the community of Cyrene.].

Commentary

For a full discussion see Judaism and Rome on AE 1974, 672.

Line 3: See Smallwood, loc. cit. The superscript bar above the number continues to the left of the first surviving upright and almost certainly covered at least one figure cut on the preceding stone; since the number must refer to the last item in the list of Hadrian's offices, i.e. his consulate, it can only have been III, which dates the inscription in or after 119. He presumably repaired damage done during the Jewish Revolt (see C.7), but this may not have been as extensive as suggested by Applebaum (loc. cit.) since part at least of the architrave of the internal colonnade must have remained in position.