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A.74. Caption for a funerary bust

Description: Funerary bust of a young woman: height, with base, 0.28.
Text: Inscribed on the rounded base.
Letters: Second-third century; cursive epsilon.

Date: Second-third century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Unrecorded. Photographed in 1915.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot 1915.

Interpretive

Εὐβούλα
Κ̣αρνεάδου
(ἐτῶν) ξα´

Diplomatic

ΕΥΒΟΥΛΑ
.ΑΡΝΕΑΔΟΥ
L ΞΑ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Euboula (scil. daughter) of Karneades, aged 61.

Commentary

Ghislanzoni dated the bust in the third century CE: Rosenbaum thinks the second century possible.

Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915, 166, whence SEG 9.351, PHI 324200; Rosenbaum, 1960no. 240, pl. 91, mentioned SEG 20.710; republished Reynolds, 1976, 64, whence SEG 27.1163.
Text constituted from: Read from the photograph (Reynolds)

Images

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