List of priests of Apollo
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a: Lines 14-17 cited, [...], 113, whence [...], 12, n.4; full text published [...], 2, 96-98 and plate VIII, whence [...], 1960.437, [...] 18.744, PHI 324446; discussed [...], 553-5, whence [...], 1961.837, [...] 20.733; republished [...], 9.a, fig. 10 (from T.XI 63); discussed (ll. 8-13) [...], 412-413, whence [...], 1999.620. b: [...], 8 (from T XI.13).

ἔτους ρλγ Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Ἄτταλος Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Κλεάρχου υἱὸς ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος ἔτους ρλδ Τίτος Φλάβιος Εὐκλείδας Τίτου Φλαβίου Βάττου υἱὸς ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος ἔτους ρλε Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Φιλόξενος Ἀντωνιανός ἔτους ρμβ Πόπλιος Σήστιος Πωλλίων Γάϊου Σηστίου Φλώρου υἱὸς ἄμναμμος οσ Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Φλάμμα ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος συνκλητικὸς καὶ ταμίας Ῥώμης ἀγορανόμος κορούλης στρατηγικὸς πρεσβευτὴς καὶ ἀντιστράτηγος Κρήτης καὶ Κυρήνης ἔτους ρλζ τοῦ καὶ ι Γάϊος Ποστόμιος Ὀπτᾶτος [...] Πωστομίω Ὀπτάτω υἱὸς ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος καλλιέτης ἔτους ρλη τοῦ καὶ ια Ῥουτίλιος [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 8: Πωλλίων | Πολλιων]

[^a2: at 15: [. . 4 . . Π] | [Γ. Π ]]

Translations

Year 133: Ti(berios) Klaudios Ti(berius) Claudius Attalos son of Ti(berios) Klaudios Ti(berius) Claudius Klearchos, priest of Apollo.

Year 134: T(itos) Phlabios T(itus) Flavius Eukleidas son of T(itos) Phlabios T(itus) Flavius Ba[tt]os, priest of Apollo.

Year 135: Ti(berios) Klaudios Tiberius Claudius Philoxenos Antonianos.

Year 142: P(oplios) Sestios Pollio P(ublius) Sestius Pollio son of Caios Sestios Phloros, grandson of M(arkos) Antonios Phlamma M(arcus) Antonius Flamma, priest of Apollo, senator and quaestor of Rome, curule aedile, praetorian legatus propraetore of Crete and Cyrene.

Year 137, also [10th year of Trajan]: C(aios) Postomios Optatos son of [?] Postumios Optatos, [priest] of Apollo in a good year.

Year 138, [also 11th of Trajan]: [R]utilio[s . . .

Commentary

Line 9: ΟΣ, written very small above the preceding word; the meaning of these letters is not clear.

Line 9: On ἄμναμμος, the Cyrenaean word for "grandson”, passed into poetic vocabulary through Callimachus, see Dobias-Lalou, art. cit..

For Antonius Flamma see PIR2 A 0831, and addenda.

For Sestius Pollio, the only certan Cyrenaean senator known so far, see RE Suppl. 14 (1974) 666 s.v. Sestius 10a

It seems clear that the word in line 17 is καλλιέτης and if so Optatos is the earliest priest so far known to have held the title, for which see Robert, BullEp loc.cit., and commentary on C.222.