Description: Funerary stele of brown limestone,
with simple moulding above and below, damaged at the upper right corner (w:
0.23 x h:
0.62 x d:
0.18).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Freehand letters, probably second century CE: c. 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, roughly cut.
Date: probably second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: location unknown;
found between 1965 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, at the Casa Parisi.
Apparatus
2: A small gap between Α and M strongly suggests this word division.4: Dobias-Lalou suggests that the leaf recorded by Reynolds may be the year symbol, added despite the word being written out in full.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Timasa Mata, aged 63
Commentary
This might be identical with the stone seen at Buerifa by Martin Harrison in 1961, M.216.
Line 3: For the name see also C.753 and discussion there.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Dobias-Lalou, Reynolds).
