Description: Lower right corner of a marble panel
(w:
0.185 x h:
0.21 x d:
0.025).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1, 3, 4, 0.03; line 2, 0.025; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega, V for Υ; roughly cut; traces of rubrication.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, Building D; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . I ?name lie] here, aged 29; I served (scil. as a soldier) for 16 years.
Commentary
Line 1: The name and perhaps the military rank and unit of the subject will have stood here. The text could also be restored in the third person simgular (X lies here).
Line 3: It is difficult to find any alternative supplement for these lines, but if the figures are correctly given (the readings are clear), the man was recruited at an excessively early age, 13.
Bibliography: Not previously published.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds I. 10)