Description: Irregularly shaped but approximately rectangular limestone stele, broader and deeper at the bottom than the top
(w:
0.16-0.135 x h:
0.29 x d:
0.18-0.145).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is chipped between lines 4 and 5; good clear lettering.
Letters: Perhaps second century CE; 0.032-0.04; lunate sigma and omega, cursive mu; L for ἐτῶν, probably with a superscript bar.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene:
Umm ar Rizam,
ca. 25 km. east of Martubah; found by Mr Saleh Belgassim Ishelwi in a funerary enclosure.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Mathounischara (scil. daughter) of Dion, aged 70
Commentary
This name is otherwise unattested, with no obvious links to Greek or Libyan onomastics.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998, 2, pp. 140-142, and pl.III, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.625, SEG 48.2066; mentioned Mohamed-Reynolds, 2000, 138
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).