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C.586. Funerary inscription, Tomb N.224

Description: Rock-cut tomb, with inscriptions C.585 and C.586
Text: Inscribed above the doorway, to the right of C.585.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon and sigma

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: In the North Necropolis, N.224; first recorded in 1955.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Ἀγαθώνεμοϲ
ΤϹ̣ (ἐτῶν) νη´

Diplomatic

ΑΓΑΘΩΝΕΜΟϹ
Τ. L ΝΗ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Agathonemos [ . . ] aged 58

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

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