IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.624. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock wall of a tomb.
Text: Inscribed above the door, with a pendent ribbon surviving on the right. Line 2 may be supposed to give the end of a cognomen which began in the missing pendant; if so there may have been a pendent ribbon on the left side corresponding to the one shown on the right.
Letters: Large clear standard forms; no measurements

Date: First - second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, precise location unspecified; recorded in 1825, photographed in 1911.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Γάϊος Ἰούλ̣ιος
( vac. )ΤΟΣ

Diplomatic

ΓΑΙΟΣΙΟΥ.ΙΟΣ
      ΤΟΣ

Apparatus

1: ΙΟΥΔΙΟΣ Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Gaios Ioulios (i.e. Gaius Julius) [ . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXVI.3, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5177; photographed by the Norton expedition.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXVI)

   Fig. 2. Face (1911, Norton 48)