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C.511. Funerary texts

Description: Marble stele tapering towards the top (w: 0.28 x h: 0.67 x d: 0.14); inscribed on two faces with C.511 and, when the block was lying longways, with C.512
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is damaged.
Letters: First century CE

Date: 9-50 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: probably the East Necropolis; photographed in 1926.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1926)

Interpretive

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(ἔτους) π̣´ [c. 9]Λ̣Ο̣[.]
Κλεο[---]
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( vac. ) (ἔτους) μ̣´ [. Με]χ̣εὶ[ρ.]
5Κλευ̣π̣άτ̣ρα{ι} Βα[ρ-]
καί[ο]υ ἐτῶν ο̣α´
(ἔτους) [.. Μεχ]εὶρ κ´
[Κλευ]πά[τ]ρα Βα[ρ-]
καίο[υ] (ἐτῶν) ια´

Diplomatic

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L .[·········]..[·]
ΚΛΕΟ[---]
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     L .[·..].ΕΙ[.·]
5ΚΛΕ..Α.ΡΑΙΒΑ[.-]
ΚΑΙ[.]ΥΕΤΩΝ.Α
L [··...]ΕΙΡΚ
[....]ΠΑ[.]ΡΑΒΑ[.-]
ΚΑΙΟ[.] L ΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 80 [ . . . ]: Kleo[- . . . ].

Year 40, Mecheir ?: Kleupatra daughter of Barkaios, aged 71.

Year ?, Mecheir 20: [Kleu]pa[t]ra daughter of Barkaios, aged 11.

Commentary

Line 3 Perhaps a short line containing the age of the dead.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument (1926, Department of Antiquities, F 812)


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