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C.526. 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 West wall.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE ; letters, 0.075; lunate sigma, L for ἐτῶν.

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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Μεγα̣τ̣[..]μ̣ο̣ϲ̣ (ἐτῶν) ξ´

Diplomatic

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ΜΕΓ..[··]... L Ξ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Meg [ . . . ], aged 60.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

None available (2020).