Building inscriptions from the temple of Zeus
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source date: a: First century CE
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Bibliography

[...], 8, pp. 95-96 and fig. 6, whence (a) [...] 1954.44, , (b) [...], 1953.251, review by J.Bingen, Chron. D'Egypte XXVIII (1953) 186, on which [...], 1955.276; republished [...], C, p. 35-36, and fig. 1, p. 32, whence [...] 1960.262, whence a: [...] 19021, b: [...] 17.801, [...] 324414; a and b mentioned [...], 223.

[...] proconsul Ioui Augusto dedicauit [...] ciuita Cyrenensium

[...] καὶ ἀφιερώσαντος τῶ κρα τίστω ἀνθυπάτω Κλαυδίω Ἀττάλω

Translation

[a]: . . . proconsul [?dedicated] to Jupiter Augustus . . . the city [of the Cyrenaeans . . .

[b]: . . . and dedicated the most excellent proconsul Claudius Attalos.

Commentary

a.: cf C.418 for a closely similar text.

see also [...] 13

a, line 2: If the work was paid for from civic funds, perhaps [de pecunia publica] v. ciuit[as Cyrenensium]; if by the emperor or a private benefactor, the space to the left will have contained the donor's name, that to the right ciuitati Cyrenensium.

b, line 1: The opening word is most naturally restored as καὶ, indicating that it continues a text begun elsewhere, perhaps C.420 whose letter forms are identical. On this basis it may be supposed that C.420 stood above this architrave.

The cutter apparently split the word κρατίστω so as not to superimpose it on the earlierlatin, civit . .

Line 2: Claudius Attalus: perhaps to be identified with Claudius Attalus, PIR2, C 795, governor of Thrace in the early years of Commodus' sole reign; see also T.B.S. Mitford, JRS XXIX (1939) 190 and ABSA XLII (1947) 230.