Description: Rectangular block, probably of limestone
(w:
0.85 x h:
1.15 x d:
0.47),
the face mainly occupied by a rosette in relief surrounded by two circles of dots
and by a circular band containing a pattern of dots between vertical lines; in the two upper corners are ?designs.
Text: A sunk tabella ansata of irregular form contains the inscription.
Letters: Probably fourth to fifth centuries; 0.06, lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, very light scratched and irregular.
Date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Apollo; photographed in 1931
as from the Sanctuary.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Sanctuary of Apollo (1931).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Of Sosimenes
Commentary
The stone may have been reused; but in its current state it appears to be funerary, and if so presumably belongs to the period after the destruction of the Sanctuary in the late fourth cent.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 89 p.265 (from T.VIII 4).
Text constituted from: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 1857)