Description: Crudely moulded piece of sandstone probably from a lintel
(w:
0.72 x h:
0.29 x d:
0.44) broken at both ends.
Text: Inscribed on the face (surviving w:
0.48 x h:
0.035).
Letters: Lightly inscribed and rough: 0.02; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Probably not earlier than the third century
Findspot:
South of Berenike:
at Tika/?Gasr Tecasis near the Gasr; found in 1967
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
1: The initial Τ might be lunate Ϲ.English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
[ So-and-so, son of -]as, by the skill of ?the builders [ . . .
Commentary
It would appear that a monument (? a tomb), erected by a man of whose name only the end of the patronymic survives, was described as due in some way to the skill of the builders – an unprecendentedly sophisticated concept to appear in a country district of Cyrenaica.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).