Description: Upper right corner of a marble stele with moulded gable above
(w:
0.13 x h:
0.225 x d:
0.065).
Text: Inscribed on one face. There is a relief of an ivy leaf curling back on its stalk in
what survives of a gable.
Letters: First century CE; 0.05.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Apollo; photographed in 1935
as from the Sanctuary.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Subsequently damaged.
The surviving pieces in Cyrene Museum.
2: .]ου Σωσ[ά]νδρου SECir, 1961-1962
4: At the end Oliverio read ΤΙ instead of Π
English translation
Translation source: Runesson, 2008
. . . and Decimus Sa- . . . of Sosandros . . . of Teimarchos . . . and Leonides, P- . . (the) synagogue (or congregation) [synagoge]..
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] and Dekmos Sa- [ . . . ] of Sosandros [ . . . ] of Teimarchos [ . . . ] and Leonides [ . . . the synagogue [ . . . ]
Commentary
A reference to a Jewish Synagogue is inconceivable in the Sanctuary unless on a re-used stone brought from a distance; a meeting or meeting-place of some other group may be intended.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 116, p.288, fig 88, whence Runesson, 2008, 134
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone and photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. C.407 above, taken before the break occurred and showing more of the text than now survives; IGCyr020800 below (Department of Antiquities, F.446)