Description: Limestone block, broken below
(w:
0.77 x h:
1.20 x d:
0.38).
Text: Inscribed on one face; there is a moulding on the underside.
Letters: Line 1, 0.09; line 2, 0.08-0.09; line 3, 0.14; line 4, 0.20; lunate sigma, cursive omega, and epsilon both standard and (line
3) lunate. In line 3 only; the final letters of lines 1 and 2 are either poorly cut or badly worn: lunate epsilon, and omicron
in line 3 and lunate sigma in line 4 were drafted but never completed.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Antonine Arch: Found in 1960, among fallen debris.
It had been apparently re-used in the Antonine Arch (see C.213), face downwards.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Lying beside the Antonine Arch.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Mego [ . . . ] Mego [ . . . ?they] made [ . . .
Commentary
The text, which was apparently never finished, was perhaps intended to record a construction paid for by a group of women who may have been priestesses.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds VIII.13)
Fig. 2. Face (JMR II.69)