Description: Plinth of marble, broken away at either side
(w:
0.42 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.20).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Perhaps first-second centuries CE; 0.03
Date: Probably first to second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, road to Shahat; found during cable-laying.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997
Eraso (scil. daughter) of Zenon, heroine (i.e. deceased)
Commentary
The daughter's name is not otherwise paralleled in the area. For the reference to the dead girl as 'heroine', see Dobias-Lalou, art. cit.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 3, pg. 43, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2198; discussion by Dobias-Lalou, 2016b, 170.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001: MFA 93/I/32)