Description: Upper right corner of a white marble panel,
moulded above
(w:
0.485 x h:
0.55 x d:
0.16).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; 0.08.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
in the area of the Augusteum; found in 1916.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Standing near the Augusteum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ]Tarquitianus (case unknown)
Commentary
Although it may have come from a neighbouring building, the use of Latin is appropriate for the Augusteum.
No doubt the name of an official, probably a proconsul; senators of appropriate date known to have had this cognomen are P. Sextius Lippinus Tarquitianus, PIR2 S 667, and Sextius Tarquitianus, PIR2 S 678, both of the early first century CE
Bibliography: Gasperini, 1965, 330 and pl LXIV.3., whence AE 1968.544, whence EDH 015584; Gasperini, 1967a, 40 and fig. 222
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds II. 53)
Fig. 2. View (Joyce Reynolds II. 53)