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C.618. Funerary inscription

Description: Triangular-headed stele (w: 0.28 x h: 0.45 x d: 0.045). The surface has deteriorated since discovery.
Text: Inscribed on one face; a rosette in relief within the triangle, and another in the centre of the inscribed area, interrupting the text.
Letters: First-second cent; average 0.02.

Date: First-second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρ̣μδ´
Παοῖ-
νι β´
Νεικάριν
5Εὐμένευς (ἐτῶν) ιη´

Diplomatic

L .ΜΔ
ΠΑΟΙ
ΝΙΒ
ΝΕΙΚΑΡΙΝ
5ΕΥΜΕΝΕΥΣ L ΙΗ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 144, Payni 2, Neikarin (scil. daughter) of Eumnenes, aged 18.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, 1916, 187, fig.8, whence SEG 9.244, PHI 324094.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, F. 391) taken when the surface was still in good condition.