Description: Upper part of a funeral stele, probably of
limestone, with two incised lines on the
moulding aparently in rough representation of a gable.
Text:
Inscribed on the face below,
which is damaged at the lower right corner.
Letters: Irregular but deeply cut; cursive omega, sigma; superscript bars above the figures in line 5.
Date: 12/13 CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
area of Barke;
photographed in 1930
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Barke Museum (1930)
1: The traces of a final letter in this line were perhaps an abandoned attempt at Ϲ
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 43: Sosis (scil. son) of Leonidas [aged] 25
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).
