Building inscription for restoration of the Baths of Trajan
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 119
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Imperator Caesar diui Traiani Parthici filius diui Neruae nepos Traianus Hadrianus Augustus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate III consul III balineum cum porticibus et sphaeristeris ceteris que adiacentibus quae tumultu Iudaico diruta et exusta erant ciuitati Cyrenensium restitui iussit

Translations

Emperor Caesar, son of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Hadrian Augustus, high priest pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the third time, consul for the third time, ordered that the bath-building, with the porticoes and the ball-courts and other associated structures which were destroyed and burnt by the Jewish revolt, be restored for the city of the Cyreneans.

Commentary

Line 4: 1st Jan. -9th Dec. 119.

Line 6: Oliverio noted that the portico can be recognised beneath the Byzantine Baths to the south; the Sphaeristera, he thought, may have been beside these or on an upper storey over the central area of the Baths of Trajan.