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M.128. Funerary inscription

Description: Marble herm, the head lost and the base broken away (w: 0.285 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.245)
Text: Inscribed on the face below the bust.
Letters: Second-third century CE: lines 1, 3-5, 0.035; 1.2, 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, omega; superscript bars above the abbreviated praenomina and nomina.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Batta (formerly Oberdan), about 300m. from the village square with M.129, M.130, M.131 and M.132; found in 1938
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tolmeita Museum

Interpretive

Γ(άιον) Κλ(αύδιον) Οὐαλερια-
νὸν Νεμωνι-
[α]νόν ὁ πα-
τὴρ Γ(άιος) Κλ(αύδιος) Ἀκύ-
5λαϲ Νίκαιοϲ

Diplomatic

ΓΚΛΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑ
ΝΟΝΝΕΜΩΝΙ
[.]ΝΟΝΟΠΑ
ΤΗΡΓΚΛΑΚΥ
5ΛΑϹΝΙΚΑΙΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

G(aios) Kl(audios) Oualerianos Nemonianos (i.e. G(aius) Cl(audius) Valerianus Nemonianus): his father G(aios) Kl(audios) Akulas (i.e. G(aius) Cl(audius) Aquila) Nikaios (scil. set this up)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds II.84)

   Fig. 2. Face