Description: Marble stele tapering towards the top, moulded above (w:
0.44-0.38 x h:
1.13 x d:
0.345).
Text: Inscribed on one face; no distinguishable change of hand between entries.
Letters: First century CE: 0.02, lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above L and the figures;
tricorn stops.
Date: 18 October, 80 CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Road from Beida to Cyrene, in the necropolis near the Cyrene cross roads; found in 1956.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Casa Parisi.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Theoxena (scil. daughter) of Hagesistratos, aged 18.
Hagesistratos (scil. son) of Alexis, aged 55.
Year 111, Phaophi 21: Theodoros (scil. son) of Amyntas, aged 5.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.82; 1961-05-26)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds)