Description: Marble stele, moulded above,
with two small holes drilled on the top near the front edge
(w:
0.36 x h:
0.98 x d:
0.305).
Text: Inscribed on one face; C.161
was subsequently cut on the moulding above.
Letters: First century BCE: 0.053; a large ivy leaf below the text.
Date: First century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Church: found in 1955 standing in the East apse
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (2004)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Zenion (scil. son) of Zenion, aged 1
Commentary
Re-used in the East Church, which was built in the fifth century, but remodelled in the sixth.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 153.14, whence SEG 53.2054, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, III.91.1
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds VI.2)