Description: Limestone ('pietra dolce') block (w:
0.98 x h:
0.41 x d:
0.26)
Text: Graffito on one face.
Letters:
Date: CE 19
Findspot:
Cyrene:
in the back of the second house to the east of the
Fountain of Philothales.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by:
Question: who was the father of Priam's children?
Commentary
All details are taken from Oliverio.
For other riddles of this kind see W. Slater, 'Riddles and Hallucinations', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 6 (1993), 183-184, commenting on an inscription at Aphrodisias, most recently published as IAph2007 2.10.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 192, fig. 140 (T.XV 70) whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.573; discussed by Kaster, 1984, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1021 SEG 35.1726.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Roueché).
Images
None available (2020).