IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.59. Funerary inscriptions

Description: Rock-cut tomb, with B.54 on the façade, B.56, B.57, B.58, B.59, B.60, B.61, B.62, B.63, B.64, B.65, B.66. B.67, B.68 on the interior walls.
Text: Inscribed on an internal wall.
Letters: No description

Date: Hellenistic or early Roman

Findspot: Berenike, Ain es-Selmani; recorded in 1860.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

5
Α ΕΥΙΕΡΟ
ΕΜΟϹ

Diplomatic

5
Α ΕΥΙΕΡΟ
ΕΜΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

For the tomb see Bailey, art. cit.

Either two single-line entries in the nominative (in which case the name in line 2 may be Κόσμος or a compound thereof) or a single entry, e.g. Εὐφρόσυνος or Ἱερώνυμος (in which case the opening of line 1 is left obscure)

Bibliography: Copied by F.H. Crowe in 1860, whence Bailey, 1988, 92 and fig. 5, whence Reynolds, 2002, 4 whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.439, SEG 52.1824
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous publication (Reynolds).

Images

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