Description: The greater part of a moulded marble
base, recomposed from four pieces
(together, w:
0.62 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.34), with texts on three faces. Front face,
C.51, C.52 and C.53;
left face, C.54;
reverse face, C.55 and C.56.
Text: Front face: graffiti
to the left of and below C.51
Letters: 0.025-0.03; L for ἔτους; sloping / for the patronymics
Date: 48/49 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Jason Magnus, precise findspot unrecorded, apparently to the East;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 79, Aristonymos (scil. son) (i.e. of Aristonymos) the (scil. son) (i.e. of Aristonymos)
Commentary
b: line 1, 79 of the Actian era = CE 48/9.
Bibliography: Unpublished; mentioned, with no text, Luni, 1976 p.278, note 156bis on 9bis
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds I.87.4)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds I.87.5)_001b "Detail")
Fig. 3. Detail
Fig. 4. Monument (Department of Antiquities)
Fig. 5. Monument (Department of Antiquities)