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C.532. Funerary inscription

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.

Interpretive

Π(οπλία) Ῥούφιλλα ἱέρεα
Ἀρτέμιδο[ϲ]
Ῥούφιλλα Ἐτευκλέουϲ
Ῥουπ(ιλίου) Εὐκλίδ[ο]υ̣ϲ̣ (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

ΠΡΟΥΦΙΛΛΑΙΕΡΕΑ
ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟ[.]
ΡΟΥΦΙΛΛΑΕΤΕΥΚΛΕΟΥϹ
ΡΟΥΠΕΥΚΛΙΔ[.].. L Λ

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).