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C.638. 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: Lunate epsilon and sigma.

Date: First - third century CE

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

Interpretive

Ϲυνφερούϲ-
{ϲ}η̣ϲ

Diplomatic

ϹΥΝΦΕΡΟΥϹ
Ϲ.Ϲ

Apparatus

1: ϹΥΝΦΕΡΟΥϹ/ϹϜΙϹ Pacho, 1827; Συνφερούσ[α . . CIG, Vol.III Reynolds suggested Ϲυνφέρουϲ, from Συμφέρης, whence LGPN V1-65662; but this name is otherwise unattested, and Dobias-Lalou provides the present reading.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(scil. Tomb) of Sympherousa

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

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