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C.546. 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 left of C.545. Two sunk niches with illegible writing; below, a text cut on a false block.
Letters: No measurements

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

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[---]ίω (ἐτῶν) ιη´

Diplomatic

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[---]ΙΩ L ΙΗ

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997

...] aged 18.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.h, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.H
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).