Description: Rectangular stele of sandstone
(w:
0.25 x h:
0.44 x d:
0.085).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a panel outlined by an incised line (w:
0.21 x h:
0.31),
a pair with M.280, q.v.; above the text an incised arch contains a similarly incised circle surrounding
a four-petalled flower and two palm branches.
Letters: Freehand letters, first-second century CE; 0.02; lunate epsilon; lunate sigma, lightly incised and rather irregular, between
strongly marked guide-lines.
Date: 111/112 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Blekhna on the edge of the upper escarpment north of Safsaf; found in
1956, with M.280.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum 74-1110.
(Inv. no. 74-1110)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 142: Philippa (scil. daughter) of Aristokrates, aged 45.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).