Description:
Roughly prepared limestone stele with projecting rectangle above,
showing indications of nose, mouth and eyes on it, flanked by slanting features which are perhaps meant
for praying hands
(w:
0.21 x h:
0.31 x d:
0.10)
Text: Inscribed on the face of the stele above a decorative feature of crossing lines.
Letters: 0.015: probably L for ἐτῶν. Guidelines suggest that there may have been three lines of text, but very little is legible.
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. 3581)
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 3.c, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45. 2155
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).