Description:
Part of a marble
stele, cut down for reuse as a column capital:
w:
0.365 x h:
0.365 x d:
0.30.
Text: Inscribed on the only surviving face.
Letters: Probably first century CE, 0.03, rather lightly cut between guide-lines; L for ἐτῶν; bars above L and the figure in line 2.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
Central Church; found in 1956.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] Kleopatra [ . ] (scil. daughter) of Dionysios, aged 30 (or anything up to 39 ) [ . . .
Commentary
Clearly a funerary inscription.
Nothing is likely to have been lost at the end of line 1: a unit digit may have been cut away at the end of line 2.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 47 and plate LXVIII, whence SEG 27.1158.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, II.51)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, II.52)