Description:
Stele of sandstone:
w:
0.57 x h:
1.07 x d:
0.16.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Perhaps first century BCE - first century CE; 0.055-0.07; very rough and irregular.
Date: Perhaps first century BCE - first century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
Unrecorded. Found probably before 1935.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum, 2008.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Theuxenos of Barka (scil. son) of Diokrates
Commentary
Material, style and lettering all strongly recall tombstones from village sites.
Line 3-4: Presumably an ethnic, although recorded as a name in LGPN, lgpn:V1-62048; the patronymic, looking rather like an afterthought, appears in lines 5-6 .
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 206; Reynolds, 1976, 65, with plate LXXII, whence SEG 27.1152; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 284.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, III.70)
Fig. 2. Face (E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Reynolds IX.48)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. Side (2008, H.Walda)