Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed with
C.530, C.531,
C.532, C.533. C.534.
Text: Inscribed on the internal walls to the left of
and facing the door of one of the easternmost tomb chambers leading off the courtyard.
Above the entrance to a lateral tomb-chamber to the right of C.531.
Letters: First-second century CE; lunate sigma.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot: Cyrene:
South Necropolis, to the south of the secondary road from Cyrene to Beida,
running south of and parallel to the old road.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
P(oplia) Rouphilla , priestess of Artemis; Rouphilla (scil. daughter) of Eteukles ?(scil. son) of Roup(ilios) Euklides, aged 30.
Commentary
The interpretation is far from clear; but it seems likely that Rufilla's ancestry is being traced back to a grandfather whose name informed hers.
Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).