Description: Fragment of a marble
panel (w:
0.21 x h:
0.22 x d:
0.04).
Text: Inscribed on one
face.
Letters: First-second centuries: line 1 truncated; line 2 0.055; very finely cut.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Valley Street,
north side; found in 1957 during the excavation
near the modern Post Office and Antonine Arch.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
3: superscript bar survives; possibly the right end of a superscript bar, more than the top of a T, from the shape of the serifs.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . Vesp]as[ian . . . ] high priest , holding t[ribunician power . . .
Commentary
l.2 Vespasian, Titus or Domitian.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, II.76)
Fig. 2. View (1961, Joyce Reynolds, II.76)