Description: Fragment from the right side of a marble panel (w:
0.10 x h:
0.185 x d:
0.13)
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second century; 0.22; a leaf at the end of l.4; superscript bar above figures.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Findspot unrecorded. Found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
1: the two uprights cannot constitute Η or Ν, but ΙΙ or ΠΙ are possible.English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ?aged] 10
Commentary
A document ending with a a figure is most likely to be a tombstone, or, just possibly, a date.
The superscript bar above the final letter of line 4 shows that it indicates the figure 10. The line may have given a date - ἔτους τοῦ καὶ̣ ι΄ - in which case the text contained a list of dated entries, probably of eponymous priests or of deaths; alternatively it may have given the age - ἐτῶν̣ ι΄ - of a dead child whose name and patronymic appeared in lines 2,3 in which case line 1 perhaps gave the age of an older person whose name preceded and is completely lost.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
