Description: Triangular-headed stele
(w:
0.31 x h:
0.58 x d:
0.10).
Above the text, in a prepared area which includes the triangle, is a relief of an ivy leaf, point upwards,
standing on a wreath which appears to consist of a band tied with a Isiac knot ("guet") below and which encircles a trisceles.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Ave. 0.035; lunate sigma.
Date: CE 103-4
Findspot:
Berenike: Benghazi,
precise findspot unknown; seen and photographed by Thomas Ashby in the British Vice-Consulate garden in 1910.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum (2001).
Commentary
line 1: 134 of the Actian era = CE 103/4.
ll.2-3: If the case of Καλλοῦϲ is nominative either the subject had two names or there is an error for Φιλοϲτράτου in line 4; if it is genitive, and so from a woman's name, De Cou suggested that Philostratos was Kallo's slave - but such an inversion of the normal order of names is unlikely.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 105, fig. 39, whence Sammelbuch, I.5929; SECir, 1961-1962, 288; republished Reynolds, 1978, 30, whence SEG 28.1539. See also Marengo, 1985, 151-2, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1011. For the monument see Fabbricotti, 2001, 120-21 and plates, whence SEG 53.2032.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face on the right (Department of Antiquities, F. 672)