Description:
Roughly prepared limestone stele, shaped to recall the upper part of a human body,
and with a semicircular projection above
(w:
0.23 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.07)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Roughly cut between visible guidelines 0.008-0.025; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Chersis, cemetery, near a rock-cut tomb,
a group with M.282, M.283,
M.284, M.285; found in 1988.
Original location: Kharsa cemetery
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
(Inv. no. 3579)
English translation
Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995
Secundus (scil. son) of Leukippos died, aged 40.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 3.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2153
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).