Description: Fragment from a marble panel
(w:
0.09 x h:
0.16 x d:
0.025).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second centuries; rustic capitals, 0.05.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, near Building D; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . .] son [ . . . ] Ar[- . . .
Commentary
Probably from the title of an emperor; and, if so the choice in line 2 lies between Ar[meniaco and Ar[abico. Lucius Verus, Armeniacus in 163, is the earliest possibility, Caracalla, Arabicus in 213-4, the latest that the letter-forms would permit.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
