Description: Upper part and right side of a gabled stele of limestone
reconstructed from fragments (w:
0.55 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.075).
Above the inscription, within the gable, is a relief of a rosette within a wreath with stiff ribbons spreading out
on either side from a knot at the bottom centre; below this is an architrave supported by columns,
flanking a niche which contains reliefs of toilet articles. The text b. lines 3-5, is interrupted by the relief of a mirror.
Text: Inscribed on one face. The inscription is cut partly on the architrave
(a) and partly in the niche (b) where it is interrupted by the reliefs.
Letters: No measurements; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the figure in b, line 7.
Date: Augustan
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Abu Kuraymisah; found in 1963.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
a: year 12, Pharmouthi 26: b: died [ . . . aged] 16
Commentary
Lines 6-7 are not visible on the surviving photograph, and were perhaps on a third fragment.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, II.86.1)