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A.79. Funerary fragment

Description: Lower right corner of a stele of marble (w: 0.225 x h: 0.09 x d: 0.075).
Text: Inscribed on one face, a within and b below a sunk recess, bordered to the right by a moulding and below by a flat panel.
Letters: Probably second century; a. 0.02, b. 0.045.

Date: Probably second century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Unrecorded. Found in 1969.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum.

Interpretive

a
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[---]ν̣οί̣ας
b
[--- εὐ]ψύχι

Diplomatic

a
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[---].Ο.ΑΣ
b
[---..]ΨΥΧΙ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

(a). . . . ] of [ . . . -]noia

(b) . . . ] be of good courage.

Commentary

b. gives a common enough funerary formula, though rare in Cyrenaica.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 70, whence SEG 27.1162.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: A.79, A.34 (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1983: MFA 83/IC/10)