Description: Triangular - headed marble stele, with a wreath with pendent ribbons, in relief, on the face
(w:
0.26 x h:
0.57 x d:
0.10)
Text: Inscribed on one face; each entry in a different hand. Above the face, in the triangle,
there is a lightly cut design - perhaps a wreath.
Letters: First century CE; line 1, 0.025; lines 2-7, 0.02. The stops are triangular, perhaps vestigial leaves.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Necropolis, precise location unspecified; found before 1916.
Original location: Necropolis
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
Sarra des Agathokles, 28 (Jahre); Philon des Eumenes, 68 (Jahre); Hagemona des Simon, 14 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Sarra (scil. daughter) of Agathokles, aged 28. Philo (scil. son) of Eumenes, aged 68. Hagemona (scil. daughter) of Simon, aged 14.
Commentary
Line 1: The name suggests a Jewish family; see Lüderitz.
Bibliography: Oliverio, 1916, 188 fig.9, whence SEG 9.245, PHI 324095; Applebaum, 1954, 41 no.2. From these Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 10.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 391) taken when the surface was still in good condition.