Description: Fragment from the left side of a sandstone stele (no measurements)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunk area between broad flanking borders.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE, well cut and aligned: no measurements.
Date: Perhaps first century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
in the area of Barke;
photographed in the museum in 1930.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Barke Museum (1930).
English translation
Translation by: Editors
[? Year X, ?Hippa]los (scil. son) of Hippalos
Commentary
Line 1: The missing name might be Ἵππα]λος
Line 2 presumably gives the age at death. It is possible that a year sign has been lost at the end of line 1, in which case line 2 would contain a number, ?ἑξή(κοντα), sixty; but this is not a common abbreviation. An alternative abbreviation, also unusual, would be ἐ(τῶν) ξη΄, aged 68.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).
