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)
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)