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Object Type
Museum number: 1884,1210.265
Description: Fragment of a marble stela inscribed with Greek alphabetic characters; remains of four lines of text, only three legible, mentioning the titles of the Roman Emperor (Kaisar and Autocrator); the stela is complete front and back but is broken away on all sides of the inscription, as if the round was deliberately cut down for reuse.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1 AD-100 AD
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Salamis (Cyprus)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 7.30 centimetres; Width: 5.70 centimetres; Depth: 4.40 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Inscription / The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum (981); Pouilloux et al. 1987 / Salamine de Chypre XIII. Testimonia Salaminia 2 (no. 160)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1884
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1884,1210.265

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