Description: Rock-cut tomb, with inscriptions C.585
and C.586
Text: Inscribed above the left doorway.
Letters: 0.05; lunate sigma
Date: 39/40 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
In the North Necropolis, N.224; first recorded in 1955.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Year 70. Poplios (i.e. Publius) Ran[-
Commentary
Line 1: 70 of the Actian era = 39/40 CE
Line 2: Possibly the age of the dead man - 41 - or the end of a patronymic, e.g. Ἀρίμμα
Bibliography: Recorded in a painting by Porcher (1861): Thorn, 2007, 193; Cassels, 1955, N.224, p.28.For the tomb, with transcription, see Thorn, 2009, 87
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).