Description: Cut block of local limestone;
w:
1.00 x h:
0.63,
complete above and below but damaged above.
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Average 0.07; crudely cut, with lunate and square forms of epsilon and omega; L for ἔτους (line 1) and ἐτῶν (l.4) where the
word is also written out in full. Superscript bar above ζ in line 4.
Date: First century BCE - first century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
in the fore-court of a rock-cut tomb to the south west of
Zāwiyat al Ḩanīyah.
Recorded by Clermont-Ganneau in 1895; found again in 1968.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 4, in the priesthood of Alexandros: Aristandridas (scil. son) of Nika(i)os, aged 17.
Commentary
Clermont-Ganneau received this copy from M. Guiraud, who had received it from an Arab copyist; he had copied the four lines of the text twice.
Bibliography: Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 3, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1979.653, SEG 27.1198
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).