Description: Part of a limestone column drum, the surface in poor condition, and broken away above.
Text: Inscribed on the face. There appears to have
been an incised frame with some kind of simple incised decoration at the left side of the text.
Letters: Second-third century: 0.06; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive mu and cursive omega. Rather roughly cut.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Found in 1925 in the Temple of Apollo:
in the peristasis on the southern side
Original location: Temple of Apollo, peristasis, third column on the south-east side.
Last recorded location:
Replaced in position.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
M(arkos) [Kl(audios] (i.e. M(arcus) [Cl(audius)]) Klearchos Magnos (i.e. Magnus) (scil. gave) the column from his own resources.
Commentary
Probably a relation of, perhaps identical with, M. Claudius Klearchos Rufus Magnus, see C.254.
Bibliography: Mentioned, Pernier, 1935 139; published SECir, 1961-1962, 45 p. 247, fig. 42 (from T. XI 21).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 413)