Description: Approximately one third of a Corinthian capital of marble (probably Greek island)
with a fragment of the drum below (h:
0.48 x diam.:
0.47); the relief has been chiselled away at the sides, and the core hollowed out.
It is one of a set, all apparently adapted in Arab times to carry lavers.
Text: Inscribed on the fillet.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Barke; photographed in 1930.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Arsolochos (scil. son) of Nassonianos
Commentary
There might be a missing letter at the beginning of the first name; but cf Ἀρσίλοχος, at Thebes, LGPNV3b-22372
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Monument