Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed on the façade of a tomb, shown at the right hand side of a drawing by Pacho.
Letters: Standard forms
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
perhaps North Necropolis, N.196; recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1825).
ΑΒΑΛΕΡΟΣΠΟΔΜΣΥΟΖ The last letter could be Ζ or Σ. Pacho, 1827 ; Version 1, C. Dobias-Lalou; Version 2, J.M. Reynolds
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Version 1): L(oukios) Balerios Preiskos (i.e. L(ucius) Valerius Priscus). (Version 2): A(ulos) Balerios (i.e. A(ulus) Valerius) Ptolmaios.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, XXXV. For the tomb see Cassels, 1955 N.196, Thorn, 2009, 77-78
Text constituted from: Transcription from drawing (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Pacho XXXV