Description: Lower left-hand corner of fine-grained white marble
base or panel
(w:
0.115 x h:
0.180 x d:
0.032). Stained brown, chipped along all edges.
Text: Inscribed on encrusted face.
Letters: Lines 1,3, 0.025; line 2, 0.03; line 4, 0.02; stop for abbreviation.
Date: Probably second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: area C13, 1, in a posthole.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 77-1224)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2012
C(aius) I... ? and (scil. dedicated a statue of?)... ? Crispus... hero
Commentary
It is not clear whether what survives of the text named one person or two; if one, then a man/boy is named in line 1, the name perhaps continuing in lines2-3, and in line 4 he is described as a hero; if two, the first name, beginning in line 1 probably named as a hero the man or boy described by the second (whose beginning we cannot assess, but ΚΡΙΣΠ[- . . ., probably Crispus, is likely to be his cognomen).
For heroization in the Sanctuary cf. C.466.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.40, whence SEG 62.1795.21.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Donald White)
Fig. 2. Face (Donald White)