Description: Marble panel broken in three pieces
(w:
1.53 x h:
0.295 x d:
0.11)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century BCE: 0.025.
Date: First century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
near the Temple of Apollo, to the west; found in 1927.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, son of Publius, legatus pro praetore: the Cyrenaeans (i.e. honoured him as their) patron and saviour
Commentary
The text is identical to C.271; the same man appears in C.688 and perhaps C.132.
For the man, see DPRR Corn2082; see discussion in Reynolds, art.cit.
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1929, 14, pp.141-2 and fig. 39, whence AE 1929.11, Boehringer, 1929 416, Roussel, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1930.216, SEG 9.56; Republished, Reynolds, 1962, 2, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.560, SEG 20.730, PHI 324490, cf. Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1966.499
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E. 948)