Building inscription for the temple of Jason Magnus
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 176-180
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Bibliography

[...], 17, p.335, fig. 23, on which [...], 400, also mentioned [...], 145; from these [...] 407, [...] 9.172, [...] 324023 whence [...], p. 101.a; see also [...], 8; and [...], 61, and [...], 403; [...], 95; mentioned [...], 215.

ὑπὲρ τᾶς Αὐτοκρατόρων Καισάρων Μάρκωι Αὐρηλίωι Ἀντωνείνωι καὶ Λουκίωι Αὐρηλίωι Κομόδωι Σεβαστῶν νείκας Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Ἰάσων Μάγνος ἱαρεὺς ἐπώνυμος τῶ κτίστα Ἀπόλλωνος τὸν ναὸν ἐκ θεμελίων [...]ἐκ τᾶν τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος προσόδων κατεσκεύασεν ἀφιερώσαντος [...]ωθειω [...]τω καὶ πρεσβευτὰ ἐπ’ ἀγαθῷ

[^a1: at 1: [Αὐτοκρα]τόρων [at left end]]

[^a2: at 2: [Σεβαστῶν] Τι(βέριος) [at left end]]

Translations

Essendo imperatori Cesari Augusti M. Aurelio Antonino e Lucio Aurelio Commodo, Tiberio Claudio lasone Magno, sacerdote eponimo di Apollo Ctiste, fece costruire il tempio.... dedicandolo il sacerdote... Theofrasto e il legato Epagatilo.

[For the victory] of the Emperors Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, [Augusti]: Ti(berios) Klaudios Ti(berius) Claudius Iason Magnos Magnus eponymous priest of Apollo the Founder, constructed the temple from [the foundations out of the income of Apollo]; the consecration was made by [ . . . ?proconsul] and legate, for good fortune.

Commentary

Line 2: Joint emperors between 176 and 180; it is noteworthy that the name of Commodus has not been erased.

Line 2: Or [ὑγιεία]ς; but the successful fighting in Mauretania in 177 and on the Danube from 177 onwards makes a dedication for victory very likely; cf. the closely related C.661, line 1.

Line 2: For Jason Magnυs see on C.64

Line 3: This title, restored in C.661, line 2, is not otherwise attested at Cyrene but occurs at Teucheira in the late second century CE (T.13).

Line 4: This is the earliest dated appearαnce of Apollo as Ktistes in the formal title of an eponymus priest.

The first gap presumably contained a phrase like σὺν πάντι τοὶ κόσμοι, cf. C.661, line 3.

The second gap contained the name and the title of the proconsul followed by the name and beginning of the title of his assistant, see C.661, lines 3, 4. What remains of the title of the assistant does not quite conform to normal rules - a possible restoration would be to asume that the proconsul's legate was his uncle (since it was not unusual to use family members in such a role) and restore [...συναποδήμω τ]ῶ θείω [ὠ]τῶ καὶ πρεσβ[ευτὰ] or perhaps a name -]ω θείω [ὠ]τῶ καὶ πρεσβ[ευτὰ]; too much of the surface survives to allow [αὐ]τῶ but for [ὠ]τῶ cf. the nearly contemporary C.420, line 3.