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C.509. Funerary inscription, Tomb W.97

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade.
Letters: No measurements

Date: Augustan to first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: West Necropolis, a tomb with 5 loculi, W.97; first recorded in 1996.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Ϲωγένου Ἀρίϲτιοϲ
απ´

Diplomatic

ϹΩΓΕΝΟΥΑΡΙϹΤΙΟϹ
ΑΠ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(scil. Tomb) of Sogenes (scil. son) of Aristis, (scil. aged) 81.

Commentary

Line 2: There is definitely no L, which would indicate year/years; but this is almost certainly a number and, coming after the name probably indicates the age (Dobias-Lalou).

Bibliography: Paci, 2003, 2, whence SEG 53.2053; Fabbricotti, 2006, 126, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2007.563 SEG 56.2032, For the tomb Cassels, 1955, W.97, Thorn, 2009, 295, with transcription
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Roueché).

Images

None available (2020).