Description: Small funerary stele of brown
limestone, trapezoid with a pyramidal boss on
top, perhaps intended to suggest a head and bust (w:
0.34-0.215 x h:
0.415 x d:
0.11)
Text: Inscribed on one
face.
Letters: Probably first-second century: 0.035 - 0.045; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; irregular and poorly aligned. The numeral in line
4 is smaller, and not really aligned with the text.
Date: Probably first to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Safsaf, on the upper Plateau; found in 1963.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum: Casa Parisi
(Inv. no. 1526)
1-2: Ἱϲτιεαῖϲ Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987; Ἱϲτιέα ΙϹΟ Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique
2: Ο: either for Θ = (obiit) or a mason's error for ΟϹ Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Histiea ?, aged 20
Commentary
For the name see Dobias-Laou, loc.cit.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 27 and fig. 62, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1683
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IX.65)