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C.540. Funerary inscription

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 C.539, cut on the left part of an imitation masonry block (w: 0.25 x h: 0.24).
Letters: 0.035; very roughly cut, freehand and with poor alignment. Cursive omega; L for ἐτῶν

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.

Interpretive

Βότων
Ἀλεξά-
νδρω
(ἐτῶν) β´

Diplomatic

ΒΟΤΩΝ
ΑΛΕΞΑ
ΝΔΡΩ
L Β

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997

Boton (scil. son) of Alexandros, aged 2.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

None available (2020).