Description: A rock-cut tomb.
Text: Cut on the wall immediately to the right of the entry and above a small burial niche in the floor.
Letters: Roughly and irregularly cut; 0.09-0.07; lunate sigma.
Date: First to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Berenike:
Sidi Hussein: found with B.48, B.49, in a
group of tombs excavated in 1973/4 by the
Archaeology Department of the University of Benghazi
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. Tomb of) Pupha
Commentary
For the tomb see Ghazal, loc. cit., with a plate which, however, obscures the final letter (not seen by Ghazal) and suggests that there may have been an additional letter at the beginning, perhaps from a date.
It is now established that the deceased was a woman, buried in the cavity with which the inscription is probably associated; her name, therefore, was Πούφα, not the masculine Πουφᾶϲ as in LGPN V1-61924.
For two further inscriptions found in this group of rock-cut tombs, see B.48 and B.49.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 22.i, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1979.658, SEG 28.1545; Ghazal, 1976-1977, 222, and pl. 59c.
Text constituted from: Transcription, from a photograph (Reynolds).
Images
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