IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.501. Funerary inscriptions

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on an internal wall above one of the burial vaults.
Letters: First-second century : c. 0.05; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, L for ἔτους.

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: West Necropolis, on the north side of a tributary entering the Wadi Bel Ghadir from the West; first recorded in 1970.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Μουϲαῖοϲ (ἐτῶν) νε´
[..]ισεριοϲ Μ[---]

Diplomatic

ΜΟΥϹΑΙΟϹ L ΝΕ
[··]ΙΣΕΡΙΟϹΜ[---]

Apparatus

2: It is not certain that anything preceded the first Ι

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Mousaios, aged 55; [ . . . -]iserios M[- . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).