Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel (w:
1.18 x h:
1.03), beside the entrance.
Letters: Lines 1,2, c. 0.10; lines 3,4, c. 0.085; lines 5-8, c. 0.08; very badly worn. / for ἀπελεύθερος in lines 5 and 7, in line
7 overlapping the abbreviated name of the patron.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, N.11, beside the road to Apollonia
(between N.13 and N.14); first found in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1998)
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
A L(ucio) Vibio, di L(ucio) l(iberto), Gattabo. L(ucio) Numisio, di L(ucio) l(iberto), Mario, fratello, costruire fece. Lucio Vibio, di Lucio (liberto) Gattabo. Lucio Numisio Mario, (di Lucio liberto) fratello, fece.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
(Latin): For L(ucius) Vibius Gattabus, freedman of L(ucius). L(ucius) Numisius Mario, freedman of L(ucius), his brother, was responsible for the construction (i.e. of the tomb).
(Greek): Leukios Ouibios Gattabos, freedman of Leukios. Leukios Numisios Mario, freedman of L(eukios), his brother, was responsible for the construction (i.e. of the tomb).
Commentary
line 1 Also in C.555. It is tempting to connect the family with the governor Numisius Marcellianus, but the letter forms here look earlier.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXIII.8, and Letronne, p. 395, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5175 and p. 1241, CIL, 11, IGRR, I.1042; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 546 (133), pl. CXIV, fig. 109, whence SEG 9.247, PHI 324097, For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 28; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 237.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXIII)
Fig. 2. Transcription detail (1827, Pacho, plate LXIII.8)
Fig. 3. Text, lines 1-4 (BSR. 49. XXI.7)
Fig. 4. Text, lines 5-8 (BSR. 49. XXI.8)
Fig. 5. Face (Dorothy Thorn, 1998)
Fig. 6. Face (Dorothy Thorn, 1998)