Description: Brown limestone
stele with simple acroteria above flanking a broken projection which probably represented a crude head (w:
0.31 x h:
0.41 x d:
0.08).
Text: Inscribed on one face. The cutter has avoided a hole in the stone in line 2.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega.
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Eshavo, south of Farzuga; found in 1968, with M.94.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum
2: Or θ Κάνσχαντος
Commentary
Lines 2, Thoth 29: but κ may be the inital of the name, giving Thoth 9.
Line 3: the numeral is unclear; aged 60, or perhaps 7.
Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 43 and fig. 77, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1728
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.20)