Description: A quarry with three rock-cut tombs cut into a quarry, with inscriptions
M.71 is in the east wall, M.72 on the south wall,
M.73 on the west wall and
M.74 on the north wall.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a sunk tabella ansata
(w:
1.21 x h:
0.53).
Letters: Second century CE: 0.07
Date: Second century CE
Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira:
quarry-necropolis of Hadrianopolis: above the entrance to the east tomb.
Photographed in 1924.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. Tomb) of the freedmen and slaves of Eugenes
Commentary
The tomb of the slaves and freedmen of the familia of Eugenes, presumably a citizen of Hadrianopolis owning considerable property. There is no parallel to this formula in Cyrenaica.
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961, 19.3 and fig.34, whence SEG 20.772.c, PHI 324523; mentioned Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.367; republished Jones-Little, 1971, 2, p.2 and pl.III, fig. 4, whence SEG 26.1821, PHI 324716
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).