Beirut, Inscription mentioning Queen Berenice and King Agrippa II

Beirut, Inscription mentioning Queen Berenice and King Agrippa II

Description

Beirut, Inscription mentioning Queen Berenice and King Agrippa II

Details

[Rex magnus Agrippa Philocaesar et r]egina Berenice regis magni A[grippae filii]
[coloniae Iuliae Augustae Felici Beryto impensis suis balneum(?) qu]od rex Herodes proavs eorum fecerat ve[tustate dilapsum]
[refecerunt et ronaverunt stat]uis(?) marmoribusque et columnis [s]ex.

"The great King Agrippa Philocaesar and Queen Berenice, children of the great King Agrippa, restored in the colonia of Julia Augusta Felix Berytus, from their own money, this bathhouse (?), which their ancestor, King Herod, had built and which had fallen to ruins, and re-erected the marble statues and these six columns."

Date

48 CE–ca. 100 CE

Inscriptionnr

EDCS-15300229

Creator

Jona Lendering

Museum

Beirut, National Museum

Licence

CC0 1.0 Universal

Categories

Judaism, Roman Empire

Tags

Inscription

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