Description:
Limestone stele (w:
0.36 x h:
0.54) with acroteria and lunette or gable above containing a rosette in relief.
Text: Inscribed (line 1) on the architrave and (lines 2-4) within a round-headed panel flanked by
pillars in relief; below the text is a swag in relief.
Letters: 0.02. Lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the figure in line 4; clearly-marked guidelines.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira:
Elved Ait el-Gazali, six kilometres SSW of Hamada (formerly Filzi) village,
in a rock-cut chamber-tomb with M.78,
M.79 and M.80; found in 1963.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
3: Λ might be Δ
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Previously unpublished.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds NS.XI.15)