Description: Rock-cut tomb, with six loculi.
Text: Inscribed above Loculus 3, i above, ii below i, to the right, among further traces.
IGCyr123200 is inscribed below the same entrance.
Letters: i: lunate sigma. ii: lunate epsilon
Date: i: Roman periodii: Late Antique
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis (S.1, between S.3 and S.4);
examined in 2000 by James and Dorothy Thorn.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(i): Year ?400, also (scil. regnal year) 7: Protomachos (scil. son) of Antimachos, aged 22. (i): Lord, help [ . ..
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(ii): Lord help [...
Commentary
If the numerals are correctly read, the year - 370/1 would be the seventh year of the reign of Valentinian and Valens.
Bibliography: i: Transcribed Thorn, 2009, 205. ii: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 177.11b, whence SEG 53.2040.12. For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 205.
Text constituted from: i: Previous publication (Roueché); ii: Transcription (Reynolds)
Images
None available (2020).