IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.763. Funerary caption

Description: Marble portrait bust sculpted with a cushion-like base below.
Text: Inscribed on the base (w: 0.14 x h: 0.038).
Letters: First-second cent; 0.013.

Date: First or second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Obtained in 1860 "from Arabs", probably at Cyrene.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: British Museum, catalogue number 1861,1127.91. (Inv. no. 1861,1127.91)

Interpretive

( vac. 1) Νέμεσις
Ὠρίωνος (ἐτῶν) ιϛ´

Diplomatic

  ΝΕΜΕΣΙΣ
ΩΡΙΩΝΟΣ L ΙϚ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Nemesis (scil. daughter) of Orion aged 16

Commentary

Line 1: For the name see also Inscr. Cret. III.iii.49 (available at PHI 200288).

Bibliography: Mentioned Smith-Porcher, 1864, 136, p.107; BMCatSc, 1494; IBM, 1060; Rosenbaum, 1960, 201, pl. LXXXIII, whence SEG 20.751; Huskinson, 1975, 86; see British Museum 1861,1127.91.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument (Joyce Reynolds, XI.B.26)