Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the internal walls with C.520, C.521,
C.522, C.523, C.524, C.525,
C.526, C.527, C.528, C.529.
The burial places are mostly vaults for inhumation, but with some niches for cinerary urns.
Text: Inscribed between the third door in the East wall and the niche to the right of it;
each entry in a different hand.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE; line 1, 0.07; lines 2,3, 0.065; line 4, 0.095; lunate sigma, cursive omega, Θ for obiit, L for ἐτῶν;
bars above figures in lines 1, 4.
Date: Perhaps first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, S.255.
Original location: South Necropolis, S.255.
Last recorded location:
South Necropolis, S.255.
Apparatus
1: A large Τ has been cut with its base descending into the upper angle of Ν; its relation to the name is obscure. The date seems too early for a tau-cross.2: Θ, presumably for obiit, stands just above the letters of the name.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Jason (i.e. died) aged 40. Longos, aged 5. Pollis, aged 4.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, S.255, Thorn, 2009, 248, with transcription.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).