Description: Sandstone
cippus: no measurements
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.06-0.08
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: Claudius Maximus soldier of the Third Legion Augusta, having served twenty two years lived 40 years. His father, ?Ana made (scil. the tomb).
Commentary
De toute façon, le texte doit etre daté, non de la fin du III s., comme le croit l'auteur mais du debut [note de J. Marcillet-Jaubert].
Line 4: AE suggests pater naṭ(uralis)
Bibliography: Di Vita, 1966 4, p. 97, plate 39, whence AE 1967.542, EDH 015190
Images
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