Description: Part of an inscribed limestone column drum
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Second-third century 0.045 - 0.05; square sigma, very rough and irregular.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Temple of Apollo:
from the peristasis. Found in 1925.
Original location: Temple of Apollo: peristasis.
Last recorded location:
Temple of Apollo: lying among debris to the south, near the south-eastern angle.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, 1927
M. Clearco Rufo Magno (dedicô) la colonna (a proprie spese)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
M(arkos) Kl(audios) (i.e. M(arcus) Cl(audius)) Klearchos Rouphos Magnos (i.e. Rufus Magnus) (scil. gave) the column [from his own resources].
Commentary
See on C.253
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1927, 158, fig. 26, whence SEG 9.98; mentioned Pernier, 1935, 139, see also Oliverio, 1931 61
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
