Description: Lower part of a brown limestone
stele, reconstructed from four pieces (w:
0.37 x h:
0.40 x d:
0.095).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a panel defined on either side by a plain moulding.
Letters: Average: 0.015; lunate sigma and omega, probably epsilon; square sigma for digamma. In line 1 there appears to be a horizontal
bar above N; dots for stops.
Date: First century CE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Ghot Jinoubl. Found in 1971.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
? (Year)] 50 [ . . . ]os Pinytas, aged 26.
Commentary
Line 1: The number (50) seems most likely to be a year.
Pinytas is attested as a masculine name LGPN V5b-47410; if it is the case here, then this man is presumably using a double name, or tria nomina, as in M.99. It is less likely that he is described using a matronymic.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Monument
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds 1971.1, NS.XIV.24)