Description: Parts of four limestone blocks (each originally c. h:
0.40 x d:
0.52)
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Fourth century; average 0.18
Date: ?361-363
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Balagrae, re - used in late buildings in the
Asklepieion; found in 1957
Original location: Unknown: probabaly the Asklepeieion
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[?For the] safety [of . . . the] Emper[or] Caesar [ . . . Ju]lian [ . . . the] most excellent governor [ . . .
Commentary
In view of archaeological evidence suggesting restoration of the Asklepieion in the mid fourth century, it seems possible that this text gives part of the name of the emperor Julian. For the restoration of the title of the governor, clarissimus praeses, cf. P.148.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a/d (Reynolds IX.32)
Fig. 2. Fragment a/d (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.60.3)
Fig. 3. Fragments b/a, d/c (Reynolds IX.31)
Fig. 4. Fragments b/a, d/c (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.60.2)
Fig. 5. Fragment c/e and background (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 6. Fragments f and e/b (Reynolds IX.33)
Fig. 7. Fragments f (part), e/b (1961-05-26, Joyce Reynolds, III.60.1)
Fig. 8. Fragments f, e/b and b/a (Reynolds XII.96.3)