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C.519. Funerary inscription, Tomb S.74

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the internal walls, over the internal door on the left.
Letters: Probably first century BCE - first century CE; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma.

Date: Probably first century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, S.74; first recorded in 1825, transcribed again by Cassels in 1955.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Ἀλθαιμένευϲ
τῶ Πρώρω
ii
( vac. 1) Πρώρω
τῶ Ἀλθαιμένευϲ

Diplomatic

i
ΑΛΘΑΙΜΕΝΕΥϹ
ΤΩΠΡΩΡΩ
ii
  ΠΡΩΡΩ
ΤΩΑΛΘΑΙΜΕΝΕΥϹ

i.2: ΤΡΩΡΩ Pacho, 1827
ii.2: ΛΑΘΑΙΜΝΕΥΣ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): (scil. Tomb) of Althaimenes the (scil. son) of Proros. (ii): (scil. Tomb) of Proros the (scil. son) of Althaimenes

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXVI.1, third text, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5157 c. For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, S.74, Thorn, 2009, 223.
Text constituted from: Previous transcriptions (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXVI)