Description: White marble colonnette; no measurements.
Text: Inscribed on one face, below moulding.
Below the text a crudely cut palm branch and a wreath with pendent ribbons.
Letters: Lightly incised letters, in a careful common hand, perhaps third century; no measurements. dots for stops.
Date: Third century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Balagrae;
seen and photographed in 1917.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1917).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Aelia Palatina, daughter of Titus (and) Julius Democritus, Roman Knight, for the safety of their sons, Julius Saturninus and Julius Catullinus (scil. dedicated this) to Aesculapius and Hygia.
Commentary
For another dedication at Balagrae to Asklepios see M.193, where he also has his other name of Iatros.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1971b, 2, AE 1974.681 whence EDH 011694.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E.720)