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C.579. Funerary inscription, Tomb N.213

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed with C.578, C.579, C.580, C.581, C.582.
Text: Inscribed in the second chamber on the wall opposite the entrance: above the doors of the tomb recesses, followed by some erased text.
Letters: 0.07 - 0.075; square sigma

Date: Perhaps first century.

Findspot: Cyrene: in the North Necropolis, N.213; first recorded in 1955.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Γάϊϲ (ἐτῶν) κε´

Diplomatic

ΓΑΙϹ L ΚΕ

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Gaios (i.e. Gaius), aged 25

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Cassels, 1955, 197 and p. 20, whence SEG 16.869. For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 85
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).