Description: Rectangular stele of brown limestone, with a projection above apparently intended
to suggest a head
(w:
0.26 x h:
0.45 x d:
0.13).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Freehand letters, moderately well cut between guide-lines, probably first-second century; line 1, 0.02; lines 2, 3, 0.045;
cursive omega.
Date: Probably first-second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Limnias; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum: Casa Parisi
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Mnasis (scil. son) of Exakon, aged 73.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 18 and fig. 54, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1696.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1961, Joyce Reynolds III.50)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds III.52)