Description: Limestone stele with rudimentary head above (w:
0.25 x h:
0.36).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Very irregular, 0.02 - 0.04; lunate epsilon (except in line 4), sigma and omega; probably L for ἐτῶν, with superscript bar.
Date: CE 22/23
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Chersis: necropolis.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum of the Society of the Hela, Derna
Commentary
Line 1: ἐτῶν is presumably an error for ἔτους.
Line 2: Jason is one of the commonest Greek names in use in Cyrenaica, see LGPN.
Line 4: the inclusion of a verb is comparatively rare in Cyrenaican funerary texts, but frequent in this group
Line 5: the siglum is not absolutely certain but must have been intended; the cutter did not, perhaps, understand what he was copying.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1992, 2 and plate IV, whence SEG 42.1662; also Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 1 and plate XXVII.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2151
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).