IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.507. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed to the left (Φι) and to the right of a niche for a funerary portait above the entrance.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: West Necropolis, to the West, near W.16.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Φ̣[ι]( vac. 10)λόκω̣μο[ς]
Στράτωνος

Diplomatic

.[.]                    ΛΟΚ.ΜΟ[.]
ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Philokomos (scil. son) of Straton

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Paci, 2003, 2, 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).