IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.622. Funerary inscription

Description: Upper part of a column crowned by a simple capital.
Text: Inscribed on the drum.
Letters: Perhaps third century

Date: Perhaps third century CE

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

Interpretive

[---] ἐλπίσι τὸν [---]
[--- ἀγα]θαῖς βι[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΕΛΠΙΣΙΤΟΝ[---]
[---...]ΘΑΙΣΒΙ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Hopes [ . . . ] ?good [ . . .

Commentary

Perhaps ἀγα]θαῖς is to be taken with ἐλπίσι; for ἀγάθη ἔλπις cf. Cumont, Lux Perpetua, 401f.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.622; above IGCyr025500