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C.522. Funerary inscription, Tomb S.255

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the internal walls with C.520, C.521, C.522, C.523, C.524, C.525, C.526, C.527, C.528, C.529. The burial places are mostly vaults for inhumation, but with some niches for cinerary urns.
Text: Inscribed above the first door in the East wall.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE, 0.13; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, L for ἐτῶν; bar above the figure.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, S.255.
Original location: South Necropolis, S.255.
Last recorded location: South Necropolis, S.255.

Interpretive

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Κάλλιπποϲ (ἐτῶν) λε´

Diplomatic

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ΚΑΛΛΙΠΠΟϹ L ΛΕ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . .] Kallippos, aged 35

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, S.255, Thorn, 2009, 248, with transcription
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).