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C.650. Funerary inscription

Description: Triangular-headed stele of brown limestone (w: 0.17 x h: 0.255 x d: 0.05).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; 0.018-0.02; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; cut within strongly marked guidelines.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: found in 1969 outside the rock-cut tomb near Sidi Massaoud.
Original location: Probably originally placed within the rock cut tomb.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Εὐκλῆϲ Χαι-
ρ̣ε̣[ϲιλ]άου
ἀπ[έ]θανε
ἐτῶν λ´

Diplomatic

ΕΥΚΛΗϹΧΑΙ
..[...]ΑΟΥ
ΑΠ[.]ΘΑΝΕ
ΕΤΩΝΛ

2: ρ̣ε̣[ϲιλ] : τε[ . . . ], perhaps ρε[σιλ] Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Eukles (scil. son) of ?Chairesilaos, has died, aged 30.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 26, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1682.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).