Description: Block, probably of marble; re-used as a cornice with the surface of the left side of one face cut away.
Text: Inscribed on the face. Before being re-used the surface had been cut with graffiti, some
of which were destroyed by the conversion. i: to the upper right; ii: across the centre; iii: at the left edge; iv: below
iii.
Letters: Very crude, of varying sizes (no measurements). i, ii and iii, large and confident; iv small.
Date: 1/2 BCE - 38/39 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
near the Antonine Arch, 'in the Piazza Ghegab'; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Not seen, read from the photograph.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(i): Year 69. Of Theudas.
(ii): Year 71. Ma-?
(iii): -sila
(iv): . . . ] aged 40
Commentary
i: 69 of the Actian Era = CE 38-39.
ii: 30 of the Actian era = 2-1 BCE
It may be that iii and iv should be taken together, as a name ending -sila followed by a patronymic and an age.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1935, Department of Antiquities, D 616)