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C.548. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone stele, broken at the top (w: 0.18 x h: 0.245 x d: 0.10).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.02-0.025; lunate epsilon, omega.

Date: ?First century A.D

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum (Inv. no. 29)

Interpretive

Μεγὼ
Καλλιμά-
χω ἐτῶν
( vac. 4) μ´

Diplomatic

ΜΕΓΩ
ΚΑΛΛΙΜΑ
ΧΩΕΤΩΝ
        Μ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Megò di Callimacho, di anni 40

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Mego (scil. daughter) of Kallimachos, aged 40

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 114 (106), pl. XXXII, fig. 70, whence SEG 9.226, PHI 324076, whence cited Thorn, 2009, 143; republished, Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987Catalogo28 and fig. 63, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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