Description: Marble stele
(w:
0.38 x h:
1.08 x d:
0.24).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is badly worn and encrusted with a hard deposit in the upper part.
Letters: First century CE; 0.03-0.04; L for ἐτῶν; dot for stop; ligatured ΑΝ in line 9; the two versions of the first entry carefully
cut, the second and third entry much more carelessly and at different times, but in a closely related hand which shows the
influence of actuarial forms.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Necropolis, no specific location; photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Latin): [Lucius Blaesius] Rusticus [son of Lucius], aged 19.
(Greek): Loukios Blaisios Roustikos (i.e. Lucius Blaesius Rusticus) son of Loukios (i.e. Lucius), aged 19.
(Latin): [?] Blaesius Rusticus son of P(ublius) aged 4. P(ublius) Blaesius Rusticus son of P(ublius), ? (his) father, aged 28.
The preference for Latin suggest an immigrant family; the nomen seems to originate in Etruria, cf. W.Schulze, Zur Geschichte Lateinischer Eigennamen p. 275.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 86 and fig. 69 (from T.XIII 6), whence AE 1974.674, whence EDH 011685
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Fig. 1. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds, VI.65)
Fig. 2. Monument (1961, Joyce Reynolds, II.80)