Description: Marble stele tapering towards the top
(w:
0.67 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.14);
inscribed on two faces with C.511 and, when the block was lying longways, with C.512
Text: Inscribed on the left part of the face; the right side is badly worn.
Letters: Perhaps second century, 0.03; ivy leaf stops.
Date: Perhaps second century.
Findspot:
Cyrene: In the photograph of 1926,
as from the 'east hill', east of the 'ex-Hangard', i.e. probably the
East Necropolis.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1926).
Apparatus
1,2: Oliverio also reported leaves at the ends of ll.1, 2.Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
L. Ottavio Vestale, di anni 60.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
L(ucius) Octavius Vestalis, aged 60.
Commentary
Cut when the stele had been laid on one side, and was perhaps in use as a lintel.
For the name cf C.115
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 78 (70), pl. XXII, fig. 33; SECir, 1961-1962, 200 (from a drawing, T.II 41).
Text constituted from: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).