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C.594. Funerary inscription, Terrace 3

Description: Rock-cut tomb lintel.
Text: Inscribed within a panel (w: 0.69 x h: 0.085).
Letters: 0.03-0.04; lunate sigma, lunate epsilon, cursive omega.

Date: ?First - second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: North Necropolis, at the end of Terrace 2, near N.362; recorded in 1911.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) [.. ? ..]ε´Λύϲειχοϲ Λυϲ̣ι̣μά-
χω ἐτῶν ν´

Diplomatic

L [.. ? ..]ΕΛΥϹΕΙΧΟϹΛΥ..ΜΑ
ΧΩΕΤΩΝΝ

Apparatus

1-2: ΛΥΟΜΑ/ΧΩ Robinson, 1913

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year ?-5. Lysichos (scil. son) of Lysimachos, aged 50.

Commentary

Only Thorn recorded the date, indicating a missing numeral.

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 64, with drawing, whence Sammelbuch, I.5907; transcribed Thorn, 2009, 118
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).