Description: Damaged limestone block with traces of an upper moulding that has been chiselled away
(w:
0.82 x h:
0.56 x d:
0.30).
Text: Inscribed on one face; it is just possible that a first line has been erased.
Letters: First - second century; 0.045 - 0.05
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
near the Stoa of Hermes and Herakles, among the debris in the Steet of Battus, perhaps re-used in late walling;
found in 1962
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Stoa of Hermes and Herakles.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . so-and so (scil. son) ]of -omenes (scil. son?) of [ . . .
Commentary
Line 1 is clearly from a filiation - the end of the father's name and the article preceding the grandfather's.
Line 2: the surface is damaged so that certainty is impossible but it is probable that nothing was inscribed before the surviving hasta.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.27)