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C.536. Funerary inscription

Description: Triangular-headed stele of limestone, moulded at top and bottom (w: 0.53 x h: 0.74 x d: 0.30).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century BCE-first century CE; 0.045-0.05; lunate sigma, rather rough.

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, at the Beida to Cyrene crossroads; photographed in 1925
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Δαμὼ
Ϲωτάδα
(ἐτῶν) ε´

Diplomatic

ΔΑΜΩ
ϹΩΤΑΔΑ
L Ε

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Damo (scil. daughter) of Sotadas, aged 5.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Damò di Stade, di anni 5

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 111, pl. XXXIII, fig. 67, whence SEG 9.223, PHI 324073, whence cited Thorn, 2009, 142.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).