Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Perhaps first century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 1 and plate I, whence [...] 42.1669; also [...], 2, pg. 42, whence [...], 1999.623, [...] 1997.1572.

[...] Βάλης Βάλεντος ἐτῶν ι

Translation

Valens son of Valens aged 10 years.

Commentary

The hairstyle of the portrait is consonant with a date in the second half of the first century CE.

The name common to father and son is, of course, transliterated Latin (such names fairly common in Roman Cyrene) and their homonymity is not Greek; but the style of the portrait is Greek while the features suggest a Libyan element in the family. We seem to see a nice combination of three cultures in this boy and his memorial.