Funerary inscription for a veteran, Tomb N.173
created: Transcription from stone and photograph (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries.
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 123 (114), pl. XXXIV and fig. 78, whence [...] 9.235 [...] 324085; Reynolds, in [...], 292-3 and pl., whence [...] 60.1840; discussed [...], 188.

For the tomb see [...] N.173, [...], 69-70

Γάϊος Ἀμμώνιϲ βετράνοϲ λεγιόνοϲ δευτέρηϲ Βοηθοῦ ἐλθῶν ἰϲ τὴν ἰδίαν πατρίδα διὰ ἐτῶν λ ἐφιλωπώνηϲε ἑατῷ μνημῖον ἔτι ζοῦϲ

Translations

Gaio Ammonio, veterano della legione seconda Adiutrice, ritornato nella propria patria, dopo un periodo di assenza di 30 anni, accuratamente costrui per sè questa tomba, mentre era in vita.

Gaius Ammonius, veteran of the second 'Adiutrix' legion, returned to his own country, after a period of 30 years, accurately constructed this tomb in his lifetime.

Caius Ammonis, veteran of legion II Adiutrix, returned to his own country after 30 years, took trouble to make a memorial for himself in his lifetime.

Commentary

The tomb, originally Hellenistic, was renovated and decorated (C.574) by Ammonios, which suggests that he possessed a fairly substantial competence but not sufficient for an elegant inscription.

Legion II Adiutrix was first raised by Vespasian; it served in Batavia, and then in Britain (see RIB s.v.); from the late first century it served in the Balkans, stationed from 106 onwards at Aquincum; the future emperor Hadrian served as a military tribune with the legion (Livius). For another Cyrenaican veteran of the legion see T.365.

Line 8: The verb, implying care and effort, is very suitable for a tomb with such elaborate decoration (C.574)