Description: Sandstone half-column, perhaps cut down from a whole column; diam.:
c. 0.43.
Text: Incised on the curved surface, i above ii above iv; iii to the left, v to the right.
Letters: Average 0.05; lunate sigma in ii.
Date: Late first century BCE - early second century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira: no precise findspot recorded.
Original location: Gymnasium.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i)Iason
(ii). . . ]Kyre[naios ?
(iii - v) (Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
The relationship of these lines to one another is very unclear: v appears to be a Latin letter, perhaps cut before the column was cut down.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).