Description: 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 façade, C.547 within.
Text: Inscribed to the right of C.543, cut within a niche
(w:
0.21 x h:
0.29) sunk within a much larger niche (apparently uninscribed).
Letters: 0.025; fairly well aligned and quite carefully cut; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; L for ἔτους/ἐτῶν.
Date: 18-19 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
Year 5, Epiphi 23: Jason (scil. son) of Dionysios, aged 36.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.f and pl.IX.b, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.F
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).