Description: Part of a brown limestone stele,
damaged above but with traces suggesting a gabled top (w:
0.23 x h:
0.21 x d:
0.11).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is in poor condition.
Letters: Freehand letters, probably first-second century : 0.02; quite roughly cut.
Date: Probably first to second centuries CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Gernada (Battisti) on the Slonta road, a little south of the Cyrene cross-roads;
found in 1966 with M.249.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
2: Before M perhaps stood a leaf shaped stop.English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(scil. Tomb?) of Ptulmaios [ . . .
Commentary
There does not appear to be space for a line above, unless it was inscribed in the gable, now lost.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds)