?Presence or funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 35/6
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ἔτουϲ ακ Μοντανόϲ βετράνοϲ

Translation

[Year] 21, Montanos, a veteran [ . . . .

Commentary

Perhaps one of the group recorded as M.3, M.4, M.5, M.6, M.7, M.8, M.9, M.10, M.11, M.12, M.13, M.14, M.15, M.16, M.17, M.18, M.19, M.20, M.21, M.22, M.23, M.24, M.25, M.26, and perhaps M.27. Those all appear to be presence texts; this could, however, be associated with the adjacent pit, and so a funerary text.

Year 21 of Augustus would be 10 BCE; the reign of Tiberius gives 35-6, which is slightly more in keeping with the other texts.

Montanos is the first known veteran at Ajdabiya, and shows, what might anyway have been expected, that members of the garrison might stay on in the area after discharge.