Description:
Tapered marble
stele with mouldings above
(w:
0.41-0.37 x h:
1.06 x d:
0.26).
Text: Inscribed on the upper part of the face.
Letters: Well-cut; lunate forms; proably mid second century CE; 0.03.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Wadi Bu Nabeh, near Bu Darag;
found in 1993 lying in the grass at the southern end of the Wadi.
Original location: Probably standing in front of a
tomb cut into the rock-face of the Wadi bank.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Apparatus
1: Stop after praenomen4: Superscript bar above A
English translation
Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 2002
Lucius Fufius Secundus, veteran of Legion Prima Italica, aged 60.
French translation
Translation source: AE
Lucius Fufius Secundus, vétéran de la legio I Italica, âgé de 60 ans.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
L(oukios) Phouphios Sekondos (i.e. L(ucius) Fufius Secundus), veteran of Legion Prima Italica, aged 60.
Commentary
The Legio I Italica has no known connection with Cyrenaica; either Fufius was a native Cyrenaean who had returned home after service or he belonged to the 3,000 veterans sent to the Cyrenaica by Trajan after the Jewish revolt of 115-117 CE; this contingent must have been drawn from several legions, and may have included men from the Danubian Legio I Italica. Dobias-Lalou (loc.cit.) points out that τηε transliterations of the Latin terms used here - ὀέτρανος and Φούφιος - may suggest a relatively early date after the formation of the legion in 66 CE.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 2002, 3 whence AE 2002.1648, SEG 52.1843; Reynolds, 2006, 1907, whence AE 2006.1649, mentioned Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique2007.564 .
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).