Description: Marble stele, moulded above,
(w:
0.24 x h:
0.61 x d:
0.16); the lower left quarter of the stone has been cut away.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Average 0.02; probably L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν very rough and cut between deeply incised guide-lines; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma,
cursive omega.
Date: 182/3 CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Barke; found before 1941,
findspot as recorded by Ward-Perkins (1949).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
1: ιθʹ dated to 64 CE in LGPN, so reading Ϙεʹ; πεʹ SECir, 1961-1962; τιεʹ Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique3-4,.6: The misspellings are regularised SECir, 1961-1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 315: in the priesthood of Philon the (scil. son) of Agathinos, Aiglanor (scil. son) of Apollodoros, aged 40
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 83 p.264, with Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1015 A further image available at the BSR, wplib-G24-051b
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, XII.13-14)