Description: Circular base of limestone, moulded below, broken above and to the right of the inscription
h:
00.95 x diam.:
0.12.
Text: Inscribed above the moulding.
Letters: Perhaps second century: 0.015 and 0.009.
Date: Perhaps second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Necropolis, on the hill of Eluet Gassam; found before 1933.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Casa Parisi: seen by Catherine Dobias-Lalou in 1979.
(Inv. no. 1800)
Apparatus
1: - ια Μ[νασάρχου?] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-19362: Φλαβία Μνα[σάρχου?] Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
- ia di Mnesarco. - Flavia di Mnesarco, sacerdotessa
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ia. Phlabia Mna-, priestess
Commentary
All details are taken from Oliverio.
In line 2 Oliverio proposed Μνα[σάρχω], but, at the date suggested by the letter-forms, a woman's name, e.g. Μνασώι, Μνάστα, is more probable after the Roman nomen.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 79 71), pl. XXIV, fig. 35, whence SEG 9.153, PHI 324004.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. The left side of the text (Department of Antiquities, F. 2989)