Description: Funerary stele, probably of limestone, moulded above.
The two upper corners have been cut or broken away and there is a deep chip down the left front side.
Text: Inscribed on a badly worn face.
Letters: First or second century CE; irregular but deeply cut; lunate omega, slightly square omicron; no measurements.
Date: First-second century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Barke; in the area between Barke and Ptolemais.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Photographed in the Barke Museum in 1926.
3: Επ omitted SECir, 1961-1962
4,5: Ἀγαθίνου SECir, 1961-1962; Ἐπαγαθι[α]νός jmr whence LGPN V1-61725; Ἐπαγαθίνου Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Year 3, Apol(l)odoros (scil. son) of Epagathianos [ . . .
Commentary
After line 5 the surface is too badly damaged to read what was probably a final line giving the man's age.
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 196, from a drawing by Oliverio, fig. 45 (drawing only), assigning it to Cyrene; republished, Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 32 and fig. 67, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1717
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, E. 654)
Fig. 2. Detail (Department of Antiquities, E. 654)