Description:
Marble funerary bust of a young man.
Text: Inscribed on the rectangular base; panel w:
0.127 x h:
0.092.
Letters: Neatly cut capitals, first-second century CE; ave. 0.01; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους; bars above L and Η in line 3; a tricorn
stop at end.
Date: 100-120 CE
Findspot:
Berenike:
Ain es-Selmani in a tomb,
('Crowe's tomb') in 1860.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
British Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Publius (scil. son) of Kallimachos, aged 38
Commentary
In a rock-cut tomb with with B.54 on the façade, B.56, B.57, B.58, B.59, B.60, B.61, B.62, B.63, B.64, B.65, B.66. B.67, B.68 on the interior walls.
The bust was among objects from the tomb brought to the British Museum
Bibliography: BMCatSc, 2273; IBM, 1059, with illustration; Rosenbaum, 1960, 202 and pl. LXXXIII, 2, whence SEG 20.776, PHI 324526; Bailey, 1972, 3-4; Huskinson, 1975, 87. Republished Reynolds, 1978, 25, whence SEG 28.1539. Published S. Walker, Ancient Faces (British Museum, 1997), 197 whence SEG 47.2162
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Monument (British Museum)