State of preservation:
precarious, the inscription field is almost entirely red in age (letters barely visible);
Dimensions:
47 x 27 x 18 cm, h (letters) = 3 cm;
Description:
the preserved part with capital and base has a classic profiling;
Inscription:
Dis Patr (iis) /… Marcel (us sive -inus)… /… L Del… [n (umeri)]? / Palm (yrenorum) Ti [b (iscensium) / [? V (otum)] s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito) the oath made was gladly fulfilled on merit.
Place of discovery:
in 1970 it was found in one of the buildings in the civilian settlement near the large camp at Tibiscum (north side);
Observations, dating:
the text is difficult to reconstruct satisfactorily and does not offer possibilities for exact dating, sec. II-III p.Chr .;
Place of storage:
Banat National Museum Timisoara, inv. No .: IV 7490;
Bibliography and databases:
Doina Benea, Petru Bona, Tibiscum, Ed. Museion, Bucharest, 1994; Ovidiu Țentea, Ex Oriente Ad Danubium. The Syrian Units on the Danube Frontier of the Roman Empire, Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, pp. 71-72; UEL 15193; HD 020602; EDCS-11200446; AE 1977, 00695
