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 left of the door, cut within a sunken niche (w: 0.34 x h: 0.42) with incised gable and acroteria above and a simple base below. The inscribed surface is very worn.
Letters: 0.035 Two hands; the first (lines 1-4) used lunate sigma, omega; both used 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.g, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.G
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

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