Dedication of a statue of Aphrodite by nomophylakes
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source date: 17/16 BCE
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[...], 420 and fig 8, whence [...] 1927.143, [...] 9.133, [...] 323986, [...], 10; see also [...], 1959.325; see also [...], 18.

ἔτους ιε ἐπὶ ἱερέ ως Φιλίσκω Εὐφάνευς Αὐτοκράτορος δὲ Καίσαρος Θεῶι υἱῶ Σεβαστῶ Βαρκαίω τῶ Θεοχρήστω Νομοφύλακες Ἀπολλώνιος Εὐίππω Θεόδωρος Ἀρίστωνος Ἀπολλώνιος Εὐδαίμονος Ἀρτεμίδωρος Ἁγεμάχω Ἀμμώνιος Σωφάνους Μένανδρος Ἀντιπάτρω Σεραπίων Πολυμνάστω Ὕρατθις Διονυσίω Αλέξανδρος Ἀλεξάνδρω τῶ Ἀλεξάνδρω Ἀφροδείταν Νομοφυλακίδα ἀνέθηκαν

Apparatus

Translation

Year 15, in the time of the priest of Apollo Philiskos son of Euphanes, and the priest of Emperor Caesar, son of a divinity, Augustus, Barkaios son of Theochrestos, the nomophylakes, Apollonios son of Euippos, Theodoros son of Ariston, Apollonios son of Eudaimon, Aretimidoros son of Hagemachos, Ammonios son of Sophanes, Menandros son of Antipatros, Serapion son of Polymnastos, Hyratthis son of Dionysios, Alexander son of Alexander, set up the image of Aphrodite the Guardian of Law.

Nell'anno 15 dell'era cyrenaica (= 16 a, C.) sotto il sacerdozio di Filisco, figlio di Eufane, e sotto quello di Barceo, figlio di Theochresto, (addetto al culto) dell' imperatore Cesare Augusto, figlio del divino (Cesare), i nomofylaci... dedicarono una immagine di Afrodite, Custode delle leggi.

السنة 15 ، في زمن الكاهن (أبوللو) فيليسكوس (بن) إيفانيس، (كاهن) الامبراطور قيصر، ابن المؤله أغسطس، باركيوس (بن) ثيوخريستوس، النوموفلاكيس (حماة القانون)، أبوللونيوس (بن) إيبوس، ثيودورس (بن) أريستون، أبوللونيوس (بن) إيفدايمون، أرتيميديوس (بن) آغيماخوس، أمونيوس (بن) سوفانيس، ميناندروس (بن) إنتيباتروس، سيرابيون (بن) بوليمناستوس، إراثيس (بن) ديونسيوس، الإكسندر (بن) الإكسندر، أهدوا (تمثال) لأفروديت راعية القانون.

Commentary

One of a series of lists recording nomophylakes: C.93, C.94, C.96, C.95, C.97, GVCyr 26, all describing a series of dedications, and another list, C.98; cf also C.99; see further on C.93.

Line 1: year 15 of the Actian era = 17/16 BCE

Line 2: For Philiskos see C.41 and references there.

Line 5: Barkaios: honoured in C.276.

Line 6. The earliest dated reference so far to the imperial cult at Cyrene, listed by Ross Taylor, The divinity of the Roman Emperor, p.270

Line 17: For the dedication to Aphrodite here and in C.97, line 6, see Robert, loc.cit., who discusses these texts, among the numerous dedications to Aphrodite made by magistrates of Greek cities and suggests that this "civic Aphrodite" can be explained as arising from her character as a goddess of concord, in which, naturally, all officials were interested, cf. C.96, line 13.