Description: Marble stele tapering towards the top
(w:
0.33 - 0.28 x h:
1.05 x d:
0.20).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped at the left side.
Letters: First-second century; lines 1-7, 0.035; lines 8, 9, 0.03; line 10, 0.025; lines 11-13, 0.02; lines 14, 15, 0.015; line 16,
0.03; lines 17, 18, 0.025; line 19, 0.035; each entry in a different hand.
Date: First-second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Ottavia, di Afrodisio figlia, Catulla, di anni 12, qui sepolta fu. - [O]ttavia, di Afrodisio figlia, Catulla, di anni 12. -[L.] Ottavio, di Publio figlio (della tribù) Publilia, Camars, di anni 24, qui sepolto fu.- [L]ucio Ottavio, di Afrodisio figlio, Camars, di anni 24. - Publio Ottavio, di Fausto figlio, Neste, di anni 18.
English translation
Translation source: Thorn, 2009
Octavia, daughter of Aphrodisius, Catulla, aged 12, who was buried. Octavia, daughter of Aphrodisius, aged 12. [L.] Octavius, son of Publius (of the tribe of Publilia), Camars, aged 24, who was buried. [L]ucius Octavius, son of Aphrodisius, Camars, aged 24. Publius Octavius, son of Faustus, Nestes aged 18.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): Octavia Catulla, daughter of Aphrodisius, aged 12, lies here. (Greek): Oktabia Katulla, daughter of Aphrodisios, aged 12.
(Latin): [Lucius O]ctavius Camars, son of Publius, of the tribe Publilia, aged 24, lies here. (Greek): [L]oukios Oktaouios Kamars (i.e. Lucius Octavius Camars), son of Aphrodisios, aged 24.
Poplios Oktaios (i.e. Publius Octavius) Nastas, son of Phaustos (i.e. Faustus), aged 18.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 129 (121), pl. XXXV fig. 84., whence SEG 9.241, PHI 324091, Thorn, 2009, 141
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).