Building inscription for a mosaic floor
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

a mentioned [...], 143; a and b described [...], 87, fig.3, (incomplete); on which [...], 1962.366; [...], 81, whence [...], 2014.539.

Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Εὐφράνωρ ἱερεὺς τοῦ κτίστου Ἀπόλλωνος ἐποίησεν ἐκ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ χρημάτων

εἰϲ ἐῶνα [...] τὸ κοινὸν [...] Ἑξαπόλεωϲ

[...]ντηϲ [...]ϲ [...]

Translations

[a] M(arkos) Aurelios M(arcus) Aurelius Euphranor, priest of Apollo the Founder, made the floor from the money of the god.

[b]For ever, the koinon of the Six Cities!

[c] [Not usefully translatable]

(أ) ماركوس أوريليوس إيفرانور، كاهن أبوللو المؤسس صنع (الأرضية) من مال المؤله (أي المال المخصص للانفاق من أجله). ( ب) إلى الأبد، اتحاد المدن الست! (ج) (لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل مفهوم)

Commentary

b: Εἰς εἰῶνα: for discussion of this acclamation, see Robert, loc.cit., suggesting this reading, with a reference to the title of Cyrene ἁ ματρόπολις τᾶς Ἑξαπόλεως, as in C.167, C.173.