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C.637. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, inscribed, probably on the internal walls, with C.629, C.630, C.631, C.632, C.633, C.634, C.635, C.636, C.637, C.638
Text: Inscribed; no description.
Letters: Standard sigma, omega.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, precise location unspecified; recorded in 1825
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (1825)

Interpretive

i
Μάρκου
[Λ?]ουρίο̣[υ..]
ii
Φράσω[ν]

Diplomatic

i
ΜΑΡΚΟΥ
[.]ΟΥΡΙ.[.··]
ii
ΦΡΑΣΩ[.]

Apparatus

ii: ΦΡΑϹΩ Pacho, 1827; Φράσω[νος] CIG, Vol.III

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): [Tomb] of Markos (i.e. Marcus) ?Lourios. (ii): Phrason

Commentary

Franz assumed that this should be all one name, in the genitive; but the spacing suggests that ii is complete, or only missing one letter.

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXVI.2, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5180e
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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