Description: Small stele of limestone, white or grey weathered orange-brown,
tapered towords the top, with traces of acroteria and a central projection (possibly a head) above
(w:
0.31-0.24 x h:
0.45 x d:
0.10).
Text: Inscribed on one face between guide-lines.
Letters: Probably first century CE; roughly cut; 0.025; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Aptouchou Hieron/Haniya;
found
between 1972 and 1974.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
3: The final numeral is not quite clear.English translation
Translation by: Editors
Tychanos (scil. son) of Alexandros, aged 15 (or 16)
Commentary
Dobias-Lalou (loc.cit.) suggests that Τύχανος may be a hypochoristic formation from Τύχανδρος.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 31 and fig. 66, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1684.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).