Description: Left side of a marble panel, moulded below
(w:
0.45 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.14). The upper edge also appears to survive, but the lettering runs very close to it.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.045 - 0.05. Showing late features, notably in the thickening of the oblique strokes of the Χ towards their extremities and
the failure to remove traces of drill marks in many of the trenches. The effect resembles that of Smith and Porcher's drawing
of C.43.
Date: Fourth - fifth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Between the Stoa of Hermes and Herakles and the House of Hesychios;
found in 1960.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Hesychios . . ? . . this man [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1: Probably to be identified with one of the Hesychii in C.43, C.74, C.749, C.66, C.73.
Line 2: Perhaps from κόμης?
Bibliography: Mentioned Reynolds, 1980, 150; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 173.3.j
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds)