Description:
Limestone
stele (w:
0.19 x h:
0.66) with acroteria and squared central projection above, perhaps the remains of a rudimentary head.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Probably second century CE; 0.025-0.03, lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; strongly marked guidelines.
Date: Probably second century 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.77,
M.78 and M.80; found in 1963.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Julia died, aged 35
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 45, whence SEG 37.1730
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, Tocra X.1.16, NS.XI.16)