Building inscription for the restoration of the temple of Hekate
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 118-138
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[...], 3, 118f., whence [...] 9.168, [...] 324019, [...] 1929.9, whence [...] 024268, listed [...], C.1; [...] 21; [...] fig. 4, whence A. Blanco Pérez in [...]. Discussed, [...], 180, [...], 109-10; mentioned [...], 207.

Imperator Caesar diui Traiani Parthici filius diui Nervae nepos Traianus Hadrianus Augustus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate III consul III templum restitui iussit Cyrsium ciuitati quod tumulto Iudaico dirutum et exustum erat

Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Τραιανοῦ Παρθικοῦ υἱὸς θεοῦ Νέρβα υἱωνὸς Τραιανὸς Ἁδριανὸς Σεβαστὸς ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ [...] ὕπατος τὸ τῆι Κυρηναίων πόλει τοῦ ναοῦ ἐν τῶι ταράχωι Ἰουδαικῶι κεκαυμένου καὶ πεπορθημένου τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν προσέταξε

Translations

[Latin][Emperor Caesar, son of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, Trajan Hadrian Augustus pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the ?3rd time, consul for the ?3rd time, ordered that the temple which had been] destroyed and [burnt in the Jewish riot should be restored for the city] of the Cyrenaeans.

[Greek][Emperor] Caesar, son [of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia, grandson of] deified [Nerva, Trajan Hadrian] Augustus [pontifex maximus, holding] tribunician power [for the ?3rd time, consul for the ?3rd time, ordered] the reconstruction [of the temple which had been destroyed and] burnt in the Jewish [riot for the city] of the Cyrenaeans.

Commentary

For the excavation, see Oliverio, loc. cit.

The date must be left open. Oliverio restored it as 118, by analogy with C.5 and C.281, but of these the former comes from the Caesareum, an essential administrative building, and the letter from the Baths, which provided an essential public service. Moreover C.251suggests that it was only later in his reign that Hadrian gave particular attention to the restoration of temples. It is curious that in the religious sphere his work, as far as is known, was confined to comparatively minor structures, as here; the major structures such as the Temples of Apollo and of Zeus were left to local initiative.

See further the discussion by Blanco Pérez, loc.cit.