Description:
‘Anthropomorphic’ limestone
stele with ‘head’, badly
damaged, and roughly rectangular body, damaged above and to the right.
(w:
0.18 x h:
0.26 x d:
0.115).
Text: Inscribed on the ‘body’.
Letters: First-second century CE; free hand, within guidelines. L for ἐτῶν; 0.02.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Limnias;
found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
(Inv. no. 1519)
1: Or λ
2: Δυρρα Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987
Commentary
Line 3: presumably for Δορκάς.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 9 and fig.47, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1691
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds III.54)