Description: A buried rock-cut tomb with a façade cut to resemble masonry walling,
interrupted by one door with a well-cut frame. Texts C.539, C.540,
C.541, C.542, C.543,
C.544, C.545,
C.546, were later inscribed on the facade, C.547 within.
Text: Inscribed to the right of C.539, cut on the left part of an imitation masonry block
(w:
0.25 x h:
0.24).
Letters: 0.035; very roughly cut, freehand and with poor alignment. Cursive omega; L for ἐτῶν
Date: Later first century BC to mid first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, Wadi el-Aish. Excavated by the Department of Antiquities in 1981.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997
Boton (scil. son) of Alexandros, aged 2.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.b and pl.IX.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.B
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).