IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

B.73. Funerary inscription

Description: Two adjoining pieces from an upper moulding of sandstone (together, w: 1.08 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.40).
Text: Inscribed on one face below the moulding.
Letters: 0.06; lunate sigma.

Date: Perhaps Augustan

Findspot: Berenike: precise findspot unknown; photographed by 1925
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Καλλοῦτοϲ

Diplomatic

ΚΑΛΛΟΥΤΟϹ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(scil. Tomb) of Kallous

Commentary

Almost certainly a funerary text.

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 100, and fig. 78, whence SEG 20.777.b, PHI 324527; republished Reynolds, 1978, 29, whence SEG 28.1539.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View of block, upside down