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C.580. 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.
Letters: The letters are worn and difficult to date; 0.07 - 0.0795; a niche has been cut into the middle of the text.

Date: Perhaps first century.

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

Interpretive

[---]Ρ Κλα[υδίου?]

Diplomatic

[---]ΡΚΛΑ[.....]

English translation

Translation source: Thorn, 2009

Cla[udius

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Perhaps a mention of the name Klaudios (i.e. Claudius))

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).