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B.50. Funerary inscription

Description: A rectangular stele with square projection above.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: No measurements; lunate epsilon, cursive omega

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Berenike: Seen at Sidi Hussein in 1895.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1895)

Interpretive

a
Ἀφροδί̣τ̣-
η̣ ἐτῶν
δεκατε-
[σσ]άρων

Diplomatic

a
ΑΦΡΟΔ..
.ΕΤΩΝ
ΔΕΚΑΤΕ
[..]ΑΡΩΝ

Apparatus

1: ΙΤ C-G reported Π
2: Η C-G reported Π

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Aphrodite, aged 14

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Copied by Mr Motta, vice-consul at Benghazi. Copied from this by Clermont-Ganneau, 1895, whence Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 1, with drawing, p.20, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1979.653, SEG 27.1193.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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