Description: Tapered stele of local sandstone broken away above and damaged below
(w:
0.29 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.06)
Text: Inscribed within a sunk panel.
Letters: Probably second century CE; probably two hands: line 1, truncated; line 2, 0.024 - 0.03; line 3, 0.015 - 0.03; line 4, 0.025
- 0.03; line 5, 0.037; alpha with dropped bar; lunate epsilon and omega; L for ἐτῶν.
Date: Probably second century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Messa;
probably found with M.154, M.156, M.155.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[---]eus (scil. son) of Asκlepiades
Myro (scil. daughter?) of Aialan aged 54
Commentary
Line 1: a name such as Ἀχίλλευς is lost
Line 3: for the Libyan name Aialan see Masson, 1976; the other names are Greek and attested in the area, see LGPN.
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1992, 5, whence SEG 42.1672
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, SB.III.181)