Description: Fragment of an approximately oval base of white, probably Greek island, marble
(w:
0.30 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.08; width across the cord). There are traces of the drapery of the statue on top.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century CE; 0.04; lunate epsilon, cursive omega; heavily rubricated; ivy leaf at the right end.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Theatre 3;
found in 1962.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . S]erapion.
Commentary
Presumably the name of the dedicator, apparently the Fl. Serapion of C.35.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds VI.85)
Fig. 2. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 4444)