Description: Marble stele moulded above
(w:
0.33 x h:
0.89 x d:
0.24).
Text: Inscribed on the reverse face on a semidressed surface. The front face shows no sign of an inscription.
Letters: 0.035; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: CE 91-92
Findspot:
Cyrene: Bought from an Arab
in November, 1910 by the Norton expedition.
Original location: Necropolis.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
(Jahr) 122, Sara des Simon, 25 (Jahre); . . . des Simon . . . ; Hagemona . . .
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 122, Sara (scil. daughter) of Simon, aged 25. [ . . . ] ?(scil. child) of Simon, [ . . . ] Hagemona [ . . .
Commentary
For the Jewish names see Lüderitz.
Line 4: The following lines are barely legible and the reading must be regarded as very conjectural.
Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 24, with a drawing; Applebaum, 1954, 43; from readings by J. M. Reynolds, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 11, whence SEG 33.1460, PHI 324634.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1911, Norton 26)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.10)
Fig. 3. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.10)
Fig. 4. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.9)