Description: Three fragments of a sandstone
cippus; no measurements.
Text:
Inscribed on the face within a panel
lines 2-5 and in an arch above (line 1)
Letters: Well cut; 0.053-0.075
Date: Third century CE (context)
Findspot: Wadi Zemzem:
Gheriat el-Garbia, re-used in the wall of a mosque
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[Sacred] to the gods below: Marius Ianuarius, soldier of the Third Legion Augusta, lived 40 years.
Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 1, page 95 and plate 38d, whence AE 1967.540, EDH 015184
Images
None available (2021).