Description: Small limestone stele (white, weathered grey),
with rudimentary acroteria and a central peak above (w:
0.28 x h:
0.43 x d:
0.10).
Text: Inscribed within a panel defined by a plain moulding on three sides
(die, w:
0.155 x h:
0.18); the face is extremely worn.
Letters: Probably first century CE, freehand and irregular; average height, 0.015; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Ghot Jinoubl. Found in 1971.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 16, Choiak 4: Timainetos (scil. son) of Agatharchos, aged 70; Kallo (scil. daughter) of Nikon aged 60.
Commentary
Line 4: the reading of 70 is very uncertain.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 44 and fig. 78, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1729
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.10)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.11)