Description: Roughly prepared limestone stele
with projecting rectangle above.
(w:
0.17 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Unevenly cut and aligned 0.25; lunate epsilon, square sigma apparently for ἔτους/ετῶν. There is a line above epsilon in line
4.
Date: 121 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Chersis; cemetery
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum: seen by C. Dobias-Lalou, 2004
(Inv. no. 4298)
Commentary
Line 1 appears to be a date, and the final line (3) looks very like an age at death. Line 2, however, makes no sense, and might possibly indicate the use of the Greek alphabet for a non-Greek language.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 8 and pl. XXVII.d, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2161
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, SB.IV.227)