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C.506. Funerary inscription, Tomb W.16

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 right as you enter the tomb. Cutting and arrangement are very rough.
Letters:

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

Interpretive

i
ΛΙ[---]
i
ΔΑΔ[---]
i
Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣[---]

Diplomatic

i
ΛΙ[---]
i
ΔΑΔ[---]
i
....[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

The relation between the three letter-groups is not clear.

Bibliography: Cassels, 1955, W.16 and p.32; Thorn, 2009, 275-277, with transcription.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).