Description: Marble stele (w:
0.50 x h:
1.68 x d:
0.35).
Traces of moulding on the back suggest that the stone had once been part of a pediment.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1-3, 9, 0.05; lines 4-8, 0.04; lines 10-11, 0.045; line 12, 0.04-0.06; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega;
bar above figures in lines 1, 12 and above the praenomen in line 7.
Date: 101-2 AD
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, lying in front of a group of rock cut tombs (S.14),
beside the old road from Cyrene to Beida, just beyond the first milestone, C.537; found in 1955.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Thorn, 2009
In the year 132, which is the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Nerva Traianus Caesar Augustus Germanicus, when the priest of Apollo (i.e. at Cyrene) was Quintus Fabius Karneades: Epiktetos, son of Epaphroditos, died, aged 12.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 87, whence AE 1974.675, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.564. For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, S.14, Thorn, 2009, 212, with a translation by Reynolds.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds I.82)
Fig. 2. Monument (1961, Joyce Reynolds I.82)