Description: Circular limestone cippus or pedestal moulded above and broken below;
h:
0.44 x diam.:
0.48
Text: Inscribed just below the moulding.
Letters: Late antique; 0.07-0.08m
Date: Fourth - sixth century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
Street of the Monuments, south side, not far from the Arch of Constantine,
standing upside down; found in 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Unknown.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Under (in the time of) the distinguished (i.e. clarissimus) Marinos
Commentary
Marinos (PLRE II, Marinus 5) was presumably responsible for some decorative features in the street. His rank indicates a senator; the dating formula suggests that he was holding civic office, perhaps as pater civitatis (on this title see ALA2004 IV.23).
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 15, whence SEG 18.763 PHI 324461, PLRE II, Marinus 5; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 199.1
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, centre (Joyce Reynolds, I, 41)
Fig. 2. Face, left end (Joyce Reynolds, I, 42)