IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.730. Funerary inscription

Description: Marble stele with moulding above on all sides (w: 0.31 x h: 0.86 x d: 0.20) inscribed on three faces; on the front with IGCyr096960, on the others in the Roman period with C.729 and C.730.
Text: Inscribed on the side to the right of C.729, just below the upper moulding.
Letters: 0.02; lunate sigma, cursive omega; L for ἔτουϲ, ἐτῶν.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: findspot unrecorded; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Φιλόϲτρατοϲ
Θραϲυμάχω
( vac. 5) (ἐτῶν) ζ´ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΦΙΛΟϹΤΡΑΤΟϹ
ΘΡΑϹΥΜΑΧΩ
           L Ζ      

3: ζʹ : ξʹ SECir, 1961-1962

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Philostratos (scil. son) of Thrasymachos, aged 7.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 90.c p.266.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument (Joyce Reynolds, II. 6)

   Fig. 2. Monument (Joyce Reynolds, II. 6)