Description: A buried rock-cut tomb with a façade cut to resemble masonry walling, interrupted by one door with a well-cut frame. Texts C.539, C.540, C.541, C.542, C.543, C.544, C.545, C.546, were later inscribed on the facade, C.547 within.
Text: Inscribed to the right of the door within a small rectangular niche (w: 0.27 x h: 0.38), with the incised outline of a glabe and acroteria above and of a rectangular base below. There are two hands: the first used guidelines, a ruler for the upright and probably a compass; the second (lines 5 ff.) worked freehand.
Letters: Line 1, 0.04; lines 2 ff., 0.035. In line 1, tau and rho in ligature. L for ἔτους/ετῶν.

Date: Later first century BC to mid first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, Wadi el-Aish. Excavated by the Department of Antiquities in 1981.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.a and pl. IX.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.A
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

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