Description: Marble panel recomposed from fragments, broken down the left edge
(w:
0.83 x h:
0.385 x d:
0.02).
Text: Inscribed on one face. It is unlikely that any substantial portion is missing; the text is probably complete.
Letters: Perhaps third-fourth century; 0.065-0.08; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; roughly cut.
Date: Perhaps third or fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
findspot unrecorded; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
With good fortune for the bridegroom together with the bride
Commentary
Line 3: Probably a specific bridegroom and bride are meant; compare the gold leaves found at Gaza SEG 29,1607 (available at PHI 319894 but there may be a religious reference e.g. to the Mithraic grade of Nymphius (or other evidence of Mithraism at Cyrene see on C.309) or cf. the νύμφιος = adulescentulus participating in the cult of Apollo at Mykonos, SIG 433, lines 3-4.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, II.60.1)