Description: Marble stele, with simple moulding above,
w:
00.34 x h:
1.05 x d:
0.295.
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped at either side. Below the text a
wreath.
Letters: Second-third century: very irregular lettering: lines 1-3, 6, 7, 0.035; line 4 0.05; line 5, 0.04; line 8, 0.03; lunate epsilon
and sigma, cursive omega. Superscript bar above ΕΤ in line 7.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Church; found in 1916.
Original location: Unknown: probably North Necropolis
Last recorded location:
Sanctuary of Apollo: beside the guard's hut at the entrance.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Gaios Anthestios Phelix (i.e. Gaius Anthestius Felix), veteran, aged 58
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Paci, 2006, 1903-1905, whence AE 2006.1652, SEG 56.2034, mentioned Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique2007.558.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Paci, Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, I 94)