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C.535. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed above a door in the south wall of an open courtyard, within an approximately rectangular panel which is badly weathered.
Letters: First-second century

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, on the south side of the old road from Cyrene to Beida.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

ὑγ<ί>αινε ἀ<λ>υπητ-
ὶ ΜΑΚΑΡΝΙΑ Θε-
κλ[---]-
ΕΥΜ[---]-
5Α (ἐτῶν) λ´

Diplomatic

ΥΓΑΙΝΕΑΥΠΗΤ
ΙΜΑΚΑΡΝΙΑΘΕ
ΚΛ[---]
ΕΥΜ[---]
5Α L Λ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Be well. ?Without grief . . . ?Thekla . . . aged 30.

Commentary

This text is very hard to make out. Perhaps a reference in line 2 to μάκαρ, blessed

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IV.40)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds IV.47)