Description: Rock-cut tomb, with the door mouldings cut out in relief;
the lintel (w:
1.18 x h:
1.80) is designed with two fasciae;
there are niches within the tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the door mouldings, i. above and ii. to the left of the door.
Letters: Apparently of the imperial period; square sigma. i is written horizontally, 0.08, ii written vertically, 0.06
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:West Necropolis.
Recorded in 1904, precise findspot not stated.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1988).
Apparatus
i: Αὐσ/ii: Written vertically. καὶ Ἐκλογὴ τ[ου] Λουκᾶ Van Buren, 1908 whence Λουκάς lgpn:V1-62112
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
des Aulos des Auscolenos und Egloge des Lukas.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(scil. Tomb) of Aulos Auskolenos (i.e. Aulus Aesculenus) and of Egloge (scil. daughter) of Aulus . . .
Commentary
The names in i are otherwise unattested in Cyrenaica; Ausculenus suggest family origins in Ausculum.
For the names, which might be Jewish, see Lüderitz loc.cit.
Bibliography: Van Buren, 1908, 36, whence Sammelbuch, I.224, Applebaum, 1954, 2145, Reynolds, 1976, 84, whence SEG 27.1156, Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 3.
Text constituted from: From previous publications, transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. Face (2008, H.Walda)
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Fig. 8. Face (2008, H.Walda)