Description: Round-headed stele of brown limestone, slightly damaged on top (w:
0.34 x h:
0.495) in the central part of which a deeply incised line
outlines three sides of an approximately rectangular area, above which
the stone is cut back around the crude relief of a head and neck (w:
0.14 x h:
0.36).
Text: Inscribed on one face within
the rectangle (w:
0.145 x h:
0.185) whose surface is in poor
condition.
Letters: Freehand letters: ave. 0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega. Lightly cut and irregularly aligned.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Zawiya Morazigh near Limnias; found in 1958.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum; no inventory number.
1: Πίϲτιϲ Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987; Ἄριϲτιϲ sugested by Reynolds, confirmed by Dobias-Lalou
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Aristis, old man, aged 88
Commentary
Line 2: Perhaps an Elder of the local Synagogue - though there is no clear evidence for the presence of Jews at Limnias.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 468, note 14, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1700.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Monument (Reynolds IX.4)
Fig. 2. Monument (1961, Joyce Reynolds III.55)