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C.587. Funerary inscription, Tomb N.236

Description: Four inscribed panels on either side of the door of a rock-cut tomb, with C.587, C.588, C.589, C.590.
Text: Inscribed to the left of the door; panel w: 0.52 x h: 0.45; the inscriptions belong to a secondary usage
Letters: 0.035 - 0.04; Θ for obiit.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: In the North Necropolis, N.236, above the road to Apollonia; first recorded in 1860 (described as "East Cemetery").
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Ποπελία Σπευσά-
νδρου (obiit) (ἐτῶν) λθ´

Diplomatic

ΠΟΠΕΛΙΑΣΠΕΥΣΑ
ΝΔΡΟΥ Θ L ΛΘ

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

Popelia des Speusandros, 39 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Popelia (scil. daughter) of Speusandros, aged 39.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 32, p. 117 and pl. 86; Cassels, 1955, N.236, pl. X, a; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 13.a, whence SEG 33.1461, PHI 324635.For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 91
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.587 above, C.588 below (BSR 1264.36)

   Fig. 2. Face (BSR 1265.5)

   Fig. 3. General view (BSR 1264.36)