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C.605. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, exterior wall.
Text: Inscribed on the surface.
Letters: Rough and irregular, cursive omega.

Date: Second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: North Necropolis, beside the Norton Expedition's Tomb 14; recorded in 1910/11
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1910/11)

Interpretive

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ᾧ μὴ ἀνῆκεν μή τι[να]
[βάλ]λ̣ιν εἰ δὲ μή (sic)
χρησόμεθα κατὰ
τὸν νόμον

Diplomatic

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ΩΜΗΑΝΗΚΕΝΜΗΤΙ[..]
[...].ΙΝΕΙΔΕΜΗ(sic)
ΧΡΗΣΟΜΕΘΑΚΑΤΑ
ΤΟΝΝΟΜΟΝ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] to which it is not permitted to place anyone, and if not we use ?it according to the law.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 59, with a drawing, whence Sammelbuch, I.5903; discussed, Wilhelm, 1932, IX.248.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).