Description: Triangular-headed limestone stele (w:
0.11 x h:
0.28 x d:
0.07).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.01 - 0.015; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Necropolis, precise location unspecified;
photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
1: Oliverio reads ις΄, with a question mark; the digit is not now clearly legible.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Anno 16 (=15 a.). Ctesicle di Ctesicle, di anni 70.
English translation
Translation source: Thorn, 2009
Ctesicle (son) of Ctesicle, aged 50
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year ?16. Ktesikles (scil. son) of Ktesikles, aged 70
Commentary
Oliverio assumed that this was an Actian date.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 127 (119), pl. XXXVI, fig. 82, whence SEG 9.239, PHI 324089, Thorn, 2009, 142.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Triangular headed limestone fragment