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 below C.587,
in a sunken tabella ansata, w:
0.335 x h:
0.145;
the inscriptions belong to a secondary usage
Letters:
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.
German translation
Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983
Simon des Speusandros, 4 (Jahre)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Simon (scil. son) of Speusandros, aged 4.
Commentary
The name is probably Jewish.
Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 30, p. 117 and pl. 86; Cassels, 1955 N.236, pl. X, a; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 13.b, whence SEG 33.1461, PHI 324635.For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 91
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
