Funerary inscription for a soldier
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First - third century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] [...] ἐνθάδε κεῖμαι ἐτῶν κθ ἐϲτρατευσάμην ἔτη ιϛ

Translation

. . . I ?name lie] here, aged 29; I served as a soldier for 16 years.

Commentary

Line 1: The name and perhaps the military rank and unit of the subject will have stood here. The text could also be restored in the third person simgular (X lies here).

Line 3: It is difficult to find any alternative supplement for these lines, but if the figures are correctly given (the readings are clear), the man was recruited at an excessively early age, 13.