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C.543. Funerary inscription

Description: 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 façade, C.547 within.
Text: Inscribed to the right of C.542, cut on the left side of an imitation masonry block (w: 0.31 x h: 0.24).
Letters: 0.03; very lightly cut; 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

Ἄν̣δ̣α̣ν̣ο̣[ς]
Δωσιθ̣ε̣ω
( vac. ) (ἐτῶν) ο̣´

Diplomatic

Α.....[.]
ΔΩΣΙ..Ω
       L .

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997

Andanos (scil. son) of Dositheos, aged 70.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

None available (2020).