The Funerary Garden of Mousa

Abstract

The inscription here published was communicated to me in 1956 by Mr. L. Benaki of Alexandria who saw some of the fragments in early summer of that year in a dealer's shop in Alexandria and was subsequently able, by dint of considerable perseverance, to recover a few more pieces. Mr. Benaki assembled the pieces himself and had them photographed, and the excellent photograph (fig. 10) is the source of the text given below. He has also put me in his debt by verifying a few points and sending me paper rubbings of individual fragments where the photograph left the reading in doubt. The stone itself is now, thanks to Mr. Benaki, in Alexandria Museum.