Description: Block of limestone with a very simple moulding
above (w:
0.49 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.43).
Text: Inscribed on one face, to the right, on the moulding (line 1) and the face below.
Letters: ? First-third century; 0.03; standard sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First-third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street: Found in 1959, re-used in a house, south side.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
1: Ἐπελθὼν SECir, 1961-1962 Reynolds suggested (ἔτους) ι̣̣ε΄ Ἄ̣θων, whence LGPN V1-62624; this reading by Dobias-LaouEnglish translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Euelthon (scil. son) of Timonax.
Commentary
The stone is certainly funerary.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 283
Text constituted from: Transcription (Dobias-Lalou, Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face
Fig. 2. Face
Fig. 3. Monument (1961, Joyce Reynolds)