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C.626. Funerary inscription, Tomb S.147

Description: Rock-cut tomb, with inscriptions C.625, C.626, C.627 and C.628 on internal walls.
Text: Painted on the wall, above and to the right of C.625, to the left of C.627
Letters: Smaller than the adjacent texts: no measurements.

Date: ?Second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, Tomb S.147; first recorded in 1825
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (2006)

Interpretive

ὑγ̣ίαινε καλ[ὲ] κἀ[γα]θὲ
Ἀπ[ο]λ[λώνιε?] ( vac. ) (ἐτῶν) λη´

Diplomatic

Υ.ΙΑΙΝΕΚΑΛ[.]ΚΑ[..]ΘΕ
ΑΠ[.]Λ[.....]       L ΛΗ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Be well, noble and good Apoll[onios?], aged 38.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXV.11, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5179For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 233, Cinalli, 2016, 199, and figs. 9.7-11.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXV)