Description: Rectangular stele of brown limestone (w:
0.305 x h:
0.44 x d:
0.14).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First-second century, 0.03; lunate epsilon, square sigma, fairly roughly cut.
Date: 107/108 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Umm Heneia,
on the upper Plateau;
found in 1963.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
4: A round letter, presumably a first attempt at ε, has been erased between Μ and Ε.English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 138: Kallibia (scil. daughter) of Timis, aged 45.
Commentary
Line 2: for the genitive - Τιμις for Τιμιος - compare M.156, lines 4 and 6, (Σώσις for Σώσιος).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IX.64)