IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.62. Funerary inscription

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).

Interpretive

i
[...]Αὔλου Αὐσκ̣-
ωληνοῦ
ii
καὶ Ἐγλογὴς [c. 5] Αὔλου ΓΗ̣Μ̣ΙΑ

Diplomatic

i
[···]ΑΥΛΟΥΑΥΣ.
ΩΛΗΝΟΥ
ii
ΚΑΙΕΓΛΟΓΗΣ[·····]ΑΥΛΟΥΓ..ΙΑ

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)

   Fig. 7. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 8. Face (2008, H.Walda)