IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.49. Funerary inscription

Description: Roughly shaped sandstone stele with a square projection above (w: 0.23 x h: 0.33 x d: 0.14).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Roughly cut and variable in size 0.035-0.02; cursive omega; L for ἐτῶν with a superscript above.

Date: First to third centuries CE

Findspot: Berenike: Sidi Hussein: found with B.47, B.48, in a group of rock-cut tombs excavated in 1973/4 by the Archaeology Department of the University of Benghazi
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Benghazi Museum

Interpretive

Ἀπο-
λωνί-
α Κοιθᾶ
(ἐτῶν) ( vac. ) κε´

Diplomatic

ΑΠΟ
ΛΩΝΙ
ΑΚΟΙΘΑ
L       ΚΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Apollonia (scil. daughter) of Koithas, aged 25.

Commentary

For two further inscriptions found in this group of rock-cut tombs, see B.47 and B.48.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 22.iii, whence SEG 28.1547
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).