Description: Small rectangular limestone coffin.
Text: Inscribed on one short end
(w:
0.29 x h:
0.30) which is chipped at the edges and in the centre.
Letters: 0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega and uncial alpha in line 3, letter 2; very rough and poorly aligned. Guide
lines visible.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
findspot unrecorded; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
3: The last two letters appear to be ϹΙ.
4: The final line has been deliberately erased.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Erotio (scil. daughter) of Dositheos; whoever should open (scil. the tomb) has the curse
Commentary
For the curse formula compare e.g. at Athens ἔχι ταύτην [ἀ]ράν (IG II.2 13336, available at PHI 345566) or, at Chios, ἔχ(ῃ) τὴν ἀρὰν, SEG 15,545, available at PHI 246886. Both of these are Christian, and go on to define the applicable curse.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).