Description: Limestone stele (w:
0.215 x h:
0.36 x d:
0.13) with triangular gable above, two incised branches creating a raised border at the sides,
surrounding a round=headed panel in the centre.
Text: inscribed on one face within the round headed panel (w:
0.145 x h:
0.19).
Letters: Probably first century CE: 0.025 - 0.03; lunate sigma; cut between strongly marked guidelines.
Date: Probably first century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Gsar Shoumia, c. 13 km West of Cyrene, on hospital plateau, west of the hospital;
found in 1960.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
4: Perhaps Ϲελλιος? The initial letter is very ambiguous.; Perhaps ἄκαιροϲ? But a death at 66 is not 'untimely'English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
. . . ] son of Ptolemaios; [Year ?] Mecheir 24: Gellios Akastos, aged 66
Commentary
Line 5: The nominative, Akastos, appears clear, where we would expect a patronymic in the genitive.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds III.56)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds IX.5)