Description: Roughly prepared limestone stele damaged above:
w:
0.12 x h:
0.18 x d:
0.09. It has probably lost a central projection above,
but shows sllight ones on either side.
Text: Inscribed on one face which also carries pairs of parallel lines
running across it near the top and the bottom, presumably in imitation of moulding. Line 1 is cut above the upper pair of
lines.
Letters: Roughly cut, 0.018- 0.02; lunate epsilon and sigma.
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Chersis; cemetery.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum: seen by C. Dobias-Lalou, 2001
(Inv. no. 4299)
Commentary
Line 3: Ζηνοῦ may be a form of the feminine name Ζηνώ; but, as Dobias-Lalou points out (loc.cit.) it might also be from a feminine Ζηνοῦς, which has lost its final sigma.
Line 4: ἔτουϲ is presumably an error, using the term found in dates for the normal term for age, ἔτων
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 2, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2152
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).