White marbleossuary (0.565 × 0.33 × 0.34), the front partly lost; reliefs of rams' heads, joined by a swag, on the front face, and blanks for the same on the sides.
Description of Text
Inscribed below the swag on the front face, and presumably also within it, unless the text began on the lost lid.
Letters
Latin capitals; 0.02; simple stops on either side of figure
Date
First to second centuries A.D.
(lettering, style of decoration).
Edition
speculator legionisIIIGallicae
Apparatus
MAMA printed an initial L above the opening letter. This is presumably an interpretation of a mark just above the surviving ram's head, on the left; there is nothing on the stone immediately above the surviving line.
Translation
Scout of the third legion Gallicae.
Commentary
The rather naive style of the relief suggests the same time-period as the lettering (so Natalie de Chaisemartin).
Locations
UnknownSouth Agora, Agora Gate: found during demolition of a village house, re-used in the wallMuseum (1983)
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Reynolds); publications.
History of Recording
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (83.66).
Bibliography
Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 558, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias502