Unclear
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Perhaps second half of fourth or first half of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 123800.

Ἰάσων [...] Σ[...]

Iasôn [...].

Iason [...].

Iason [...].

As the stone was recut also at left, we cannot know whether line 1 began with the name Iason. Line 2 begins further right, perhaps because its content was shorter or for another reason related to the layout. With such poor rests, it is impossible to trace the type of text that was inscribed here.

There has been a verbal tradition that this chancel post came from Al Marj and it was said so in [...]. However, a photograph preserved in the IRCyr archive, taken at Cyrene and showing it with other finds from Cyrene (IRCyr2020 C.745 and IGCyr062830) weakens that view. Furthermore, the design of the post shows that it belonged rather to the 1st phase of the East Church at Cyrene (for which see [...], pp. 149 and fig. 106).