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C.589. Funerary inscription, Tomb N.236

Description: Four inscribed panels on either side of the door of a rock-cut tomb, with C.587, C.589, C.589, C.590.
Text: Inscribed to the right of the door, within a panel w: 0.38 x h: 0.38; 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.

Interpretive

Στράτω-
ν Εὐπό-
λιδος
(ἐτῶν) λ´ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΣΤΡΑΤΩ
ΝΕΥΠΟ
ΛΙΔΟΣ
L Λ      

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

Straton des Eupolis, 30 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Straton (scil. daughter) of Eupolis, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 31, p. 117 and pl. 86; Cassels, 1955 N.236,, pl. X, a and b; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 13.c, whence SEG 33.1461, PHI 324635. For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 91
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.589 to the left, C.590 to the right (BSR 1264.39)

   Fig. 2. General view (BSR 1264.36)