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C.565. Funerary inscriptions, Tomb N.66

Description: Plain marble base
Text: Inscribed on two faces, a to the left of b
Letters: Lunate omega, sigma; a, line over the final number.

Date: Perhaps first century BCE

Findspot: Cyrene: North Necropolis, in the rock-cut tomb called the Kinissieh, N.66; recorded in 1850.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot 1861.

Interpretive

a
Φιλω ΙΕ-
ΡΑϹ (ἐτῶν) η´
b
Ἀγαθόκλεα̣
(ἐτῶν) κε´

Diplomatic

a
ΦΙΛΩΙΕ
ΡΑϹ L Η
b
ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕ.
L ΚΕ

Apparatus

a.1: ΦΙΛωΙϹ Vattier de Bourville, 1850
a.1-2: φίλῳ ἱέρᾶς Sammelbuch The first line is possibly misread for Φίλων, or the whole for Φιλώτας.
b.1: ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΕ Vattier de Bourville, 1850; ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕ Smith-Porcher, 1864 ; the text was perhaps Ἀγαθόκλεα or Ἀγαθοκλέους rather than Ἀγαθοκλῆς.
b.2: ΕΚΕ Vattier de Bourville, 1850; LΚ Smith-Porcher, 1864

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): Philon . . . aged 8. (b): Agathokles, aged 25

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: a: Vattier de Bourville, 1850, 585, whence Sammelbuch, I.1739. b: an unclear sketch, Vattier de Bourville, 1850, 585, Smith-Porcher, 1864, 33.For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, N.66, cf. 417, Thorn, 2009, 45.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

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