Description: Marble base, moulded above and below, broken at the left side
(w:
0.69 x h:
0.31 x d:
0.65).
The back and core have been removed in order to convert the block into a basin.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Augustan: line 1, 0.035; lines 2,3, 0.03.
Date: 27 BCE-2 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Church, reused as a basin.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Julia the daughter of Caesar the Augustus: the Cyrenaeans (scil. honoured her)
Commentary
The back and core have been removed in order to convert the stone into a basin.
Julia, daughter of Augustus, after 27 BCE and not later than the date of her disgrace in 2 BCE
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds III.94)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds VI.26)