Description: Lower left-hand corner of coarse-grained white marble panel
(w:
0.125 x h:
0.10 x d:
0.03);
stained brown, chipped along all edges
Text: Ιnscribed on an encrusted face which shows signs both of burning and of root-marks.
Letters: Perhaps Augustan - first century CE: lines 1-3, 0.02; line 4, 0.015. Rho has a square bowl, the circle of omega is set rather
high above the two base-lines.
Date: Augustan to first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, found in 1973
during excavations: area E12/13,C,2. .
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 73.99)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
So-and-so, [(scil. son?)] of Titus dedicated (scil. a statue of) his son [ . . .
Commentary
It seems probable that a parent, whose name suggests that he was probably a Roman citizen, set up a statue of his son.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.25, whence SEG 62.1795.13.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Left side (Donald White)