Description: Marble panel, both upper corners chipped away, recomposed from four fragments
(w:
0.175 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.03).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first century BCE; 0.015-0.02; unusual R with raised oblique stroke.
Date: Perhaps first century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
L(usius) Foficanus Niger, aged 87
Commentary
Of the initial letter of the nomen only the lower part of an upright survives, but the only possibilities seem to be F, P and T; only F gives a likely nomen, unattested but presumably a variant on the root Fuf-.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 93, fig. 72, whence AE 1974.676, EDH 011688
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).