Description: Small altar of white marble with mouldings above and below
(w:
0.17 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.17).
Text: Inscribed in two lines on one face between the mouldings
(w:
0.12 x h:
0.09 x d:
0.14).
Letters: 0.01 to 0.012; serifs, alpha with broken bar, non slanting sigma.
Date: probably first or second century AD
Findspot:
Probably Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Balagrae:
no findspot reported; first photographed 20 March 1917.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Seen by Dobias-Lalou in former Sculpture Museum at Cyrene in 1977
(Inv. no. F2590)
French translation
Translation by: Catherine Dobias-Lalou
(scil. Consacré ) à Iatros et Iasô par Pelea (scil. fille) de Philoxènos.
English translation
Translation by: Catherine Dobias-Lalou
(scil. Dedicated) to Iatros and Iaso by Pelea (scil. daughter) of Philoxenos.
Commentary
Fabbricotti gave a full description of this stone in a catalogue of miniature altars. She also published the first photograph.
For other texts associating Iatros and Iaso see C.228,M.185, C.756, M.189, M.190
Bibliography: Mentioned SECir, 1961-1962 note on 165, 316; published Dobias-Lalou, 1993, 3, p. 34 (no image), whence SEG 43.1189; Fabbricotti, 2007, 9, p. 272 and fig.9, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2008.601, AE 2007.1676, SEG 57.2017.3
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL)