Description: Limestone column drum
(h:
0.54 x diam.:
0.48).
Text: The inscription is painted on the curved surface.
Letters: Cursive, perhaps third century or later; 0.025-0.05; very irregular, lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; line above
abbreviation.
Date: Perhaps third century CE or later
Findspot:
Cyrene: findspot unrecorded;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
4: Θ could be Ε
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
With good fortune for Kl(audios) Rouphos (i.e. Cl(audius) Rufus) and the [ . . . ] from the foundations
Commentary
Line 3: perhaps τοῖς θ[εμ]ένοι[ς]. The text appears informal, but seems to be concerned with the founder of a public or semi-public building.
Line 4 is very dubious; it could be τῷ Εὐφρανώρι
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, left side (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds VI.71)
Fig. 2. Face, right side (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds VI.70)