Inscription recording restoration of a temple, with silver statue to Cybele and statues to unspecifed deities. Sitifis (Mauretania Sitifensis). 288
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Sitifis
Province:
Mauretania Sitifensis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
From temple of Cybele
Current Location:
No published record
OBJECT
Object:
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Cybele and other gods
Position:
Deities, Personifications and Heroes
Gender:
Awarder:
A group of priests of Cybele (dendrofori) and further believers (religiosi)
Position:
Others
DATE
Earliest:
288
Latest :
288
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, 8457=20343
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l’Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, I-II, Paris 1979-1981, vol. II p. 498 no. 1
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Deorum omnipotentium sancta[---] / Thrysi[a]e religiosissimum templum c[---] / una cum religiosis et dendrofori[s ---] / singulari, simulacrum deae arge[nteum ---] / (5) et consecrare et ex utraq(ue) parte ini[--- fun]/damentis, suis sumptib(us), magnificent[--- si]/mulacrisq(ue) numinum novis, id est ai[---] / implere votis omnib(us) curaverunt [---] / libero ante fores sancti a fundamen[tis ---] / (10) publicum, quia sancto docitus adi[---] / quadrato lapide instituerunt et [---] / ignis incursionib(us) concrematam, colum[nis --] / praesentata dignitate picturae ad ins[tar (?) ---] / (14) dederunt item in honore(m) numinis [---] /tu propriis sumptib(us) sua sponte, atque s[---]/rum a(nno) p(rovinciae) CCXLVIIII, et ad therm[as ---] / carpenti capistellis et strobilis ve[---]eis exornatum dono / dediderunt, unde pulcherimi fact[i --- me]moriam subiectis omni/um nominib(us) consecratis templi tit[ulis --- ae]ternitas loqueretur.
Trans:
Of the omnipotent gods holy ... the most sacred temple of Thrysia ... along with the devout and the college of priests (dendroforis) ... singular, the silver image of the goddess ... (5) and consecrate and on each side ... from the foundations, at their own expense, magnificently ... with new images of the gods, that is ... they took care to complete all their vows ...[ to] the free, in front of the doors of the holy from the foundations ... (10) public, because instructed by the holy ... with squared stone they set up ... burnt by the assault of fire, [with] columns ... with displayed dignity paintings ... (14) they gave likewise in honour of the god ... at their own expense [and] their own freewill, and ... in the 249th year of the province, and to the baths ... of a chariot with reins and pine-cones … decorated they gave as a gift, whence made very beautiful … having set down the names of all [and] consecrated the inscriptions of the temple … eternity might speak.
