Description:
Lead coffin.
Text: Inscribed on the side
Letters: ?First century BCE; 0.015; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First century BCE
Findspot:
at
Berenike,
Ain es Selmani, in an untouched tomb; recorded in 1973
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Benghazi Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(scil. In the priesthood of) Aristodamos, Akesous (scil. daughter) of Thearos.
Commentary
The grave goods in the tomb appear to be of the first century BCE; Lloyd et al. op.cit.
Line 1, presumably the date by the priest of Apollo.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1978, 13 and pl. XXVI.a, b, Dent-Lloyd-Riley, 1977, 185-6 and a drawing, fig. 13; from these SEG 28.1543.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).