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: Graffito on the moulding above C.160,
which is chipped, especially at the right side.
Letters: Too rough to date; 0.01 - 0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega. Very lightly and irregularly cut.
Date: Fifth-sixth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Church, standing in the East apse;
found in 1955.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1955)
Commentary
Re-used in the East Church, which was built in the fifth century, but remodelled in the sixth.
A personal name probably followed; the surviving traces are not consistent with the common formula δούλου σοῦ here - presumably the postulant's name stood here. The scratched text has the appearance of a personal prayer, perhaps by a workman.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960 p.285, 2, whence SEG 18.754, PHI 324456; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 153.14 and fig. 109
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds III.91.2)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds VI.1)