Description: Brown limestone stele moulded above (w:
0.235 x h:
0.66 x d:
0.23)
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Freehand letters, probably first-second century CE, 0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma; roughly cut.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Found between 1965 and 1968
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Mata died, aged 25
Commentary
Line 1: For this name see also C.754, and cf. the material assembled and discussed by Robert, Noms indigènes, pp. 344-5; the simple root occurs in many unconnected places and according to circumstances might be e.g. Greek, Thracian, Phygian, Semitic, Egyptian.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).