Description: Marble base, moulded at top and bottom (w:
0.60 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.44).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably second century Under the influence of rustic forms: 0.035 - 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Standing near the custodian's hut at the entrance to the Sanctuary.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Marcia di Gaio, cirenea, di anni 37, sacerdotessa di Iside
English translation
Translation source: Thorn, 2009
Marcia of Gaius, Cyrenaean, aged 37, priestess of Isis.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Marcia (scil. daughter) of Gaius, Cyrenaean, aged 37, priestess of Isis.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 121 (113), pl. XXXIV, fig. 77, whence SEG 9.233, PHI 324083, Vidman, 1969, 807, Thorn, 2009, 143.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).