Description: Limestone stele.
Text: Inscribed on two faces. i) on the face, to the right of uninterpretable graffiti; ii) on the top.
Letters: Ave. 0.06, very rough; lunate epsilon.
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot: South of Berenike:
in a disused Arab cemetery at Bir Shathan c.20 km South of
Corniclanum/Ajdabia;
found in 1972.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Corniclanum/Ajdabia: in the Resthouse of the Department of Antiquities.
Apparatus
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
These graffiti are hardly the work of men literate in Greek; since they seem to have drawn on the Greek alphabet it has seemed best to include them; but their date is entirely unknown.
Bibliography: Whitehouse, 1971-1972 RSIS III.14, but without texts.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).