Description: Rock-cut tomb, with plastered walls, incised with inscriptions C.502, C.503,
C.504, C.505, C.506.
Text: Incised on the wall to the left as you enter the tomb.
Letters: Too high to be measurable.
Date: First - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
West Necropolis, a rock-cut tomb, W.16, on the West side; first recorded by Cassels, in 1955.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Philon [ . . .
Commentary
line 1 A patronymic may have followed Philon's name, or a formula such as καλε κἀγαθε.
Bibliography: Paci, 2003, 1, whence SEG 53.2053; for the tomb, Cassels, 1955, W.16 and p.32, Thorn, 2009, 275-277, with transcription..
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).