Description: Limestone stele
(w:
0.46 x h:
1.07 x d:
0.35).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; 0.05; rather rough.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Photographed
in 1929, findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
3: tur(ma) Anic(ii) V[ . . . ]]iani Leglay, 1985
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Marcus Aemilius Macer Turanicus, son of Marcus, mensor of the the cohort of Spaniards, aged 40, having served 18 years. His brother placed (scil. him) here.
Commentary
Line 3: Presumably the man's ethnic or town of origin.
Line 4: a possible explanation of the four letters at the beginning of the line is Tarr(aconensis).
Line 5: The cohort is usually identified with the Cohors II Hispanorum scutata Cyrenaica equitata, attested in Dacia Porolissensis in 159 (CIL XVI.110, available at EDH 005845); see discussion at C.552, and P.220; it was probably part of the Augustan garrison of Cyrene.
Line 8: The formula is unlikely to be later than middle first century CE and is a particular favourite with Spaniards.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1980-81, 2, pp. 50-51 and plate, whence AE 1983.941; dicussed Leglay, 1985, 120-122, whence AE 1985.843, whence EDH 000841.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
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