Description: Stele of brown limestone, with traces of a projection above which presumably represented a head (w:
0.33 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.12).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is very worn.
Letters: Freehand letters, 0.025 - 0.03; cursive epsilon, sigma, omega, roughly and lightly cut between guidelines.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Limnias;
found between 1965 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . Iarthas. . . aged 50.
Commentary
The patronymic is probably a name ending -ιμαχος here.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987Catalogo 20 and fig. 56, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1698
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).