Description: Rectangular stele of sandstone
(w:
0.28 x h:
0.49 x d:
0.085).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is chipped at the centre, within a panel outlined by an incised line
(w:
0.245 x h:
0.35) a pair with M.279, q.v.;
above the text is an incised design similar to that of M.279, but with the addition of a third palm branch above the circle.
Letters: Freehand letters, first-second century CE; 0.02; cursive omega, lightly incised and rather irregular, between strongly marked
guide-lines.
Date: 114/115 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Blekhna on the edge of the upper escarpment north of Safsaf; found in
1956, with M.279.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 145: Aristokleia (scil. daughter) of Hagesistratos, aged fourteen.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face