IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.17. Funerary? inscription

Description: Two adjoining fragments from a white marble panel, one very badly damaged: w: 0.37 x h: 0.27 x d: 0.03.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably second century; lines 1-3: 0.05. line 4: 0.04.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: photographed in 1928; unrecorded but probably the East Church, the only area being excavated at the time of recording.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: One fragment in Apollonia Museum (2008), the other known only from the photograph.

Interpretive

[---]ỤODIU[---]
[---] ụxori pii[ssimae ---]
[---]toria ( vac. 1) c̣[---]
[---]ni Polḷ[---]

Diplomatic

[---].ODIU[---]
[---].XORIPII[......---]
[---]TORIA  .[---]
[---]NIPOL.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . E]uodius [ . . . ] to a most virtuous wife [ . . . -]toria (nominative or ablative case) [ . . . ] of [ . . . -]nius Poll[io . . . ]

Commentary

The text is probably funerary.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 23 and pl. LXIV, whence AE 1977.843, whence EDH 020887.
Text constituted from: Transcription, partly from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)