Description: Stele of brown limestone with crude head and neck projecting above
(w:
0.24 x h:
0.27 x d:
0.10).
Text: inscribed on one face which is very worn.
Letters: Freehand letters; 0.02; lunate epsilon, square sigma, very roughly and lightly cut; line 2 is between strongly marked guidelines.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Limnias; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
(Inv. no. 1508)
Commentary
Line 1: the year is 9 or perhaps 5; but these may simply be casual traces.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 15 and fig. 51, whence SEG 37.1694.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
