Description:
Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within a panel
(w:
0.65 x h:
0.34).
Letters: Apparently of the imperial period, very rough: lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Imperial period
Findspot:
Apollonia: West Necropolis
Recorded in 1904; not found again.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Myro (scil. daughter) of Ptolemaios, aged approximately 13
Commentary
Perhaps misread for γυνή, though the subject is rather young.
Aged about 13; for the formula with ὡς, not otherwise observed in Cyrenaica, cf. SEG VIII, 486, 487, 488, 490, 491, 495, from the Jewish cemetery at Tell el Yehudieh in Egypt. It is also common in papyri.
Bibliography: Van Buren, 1908, 39, whence Sammelbuch, I.227; Reynolds, 1976, 78, whence SEG 27.1154.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
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