IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.732. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragment from the lower right corner of a limestone stele (w: 0.13 x h: 0.13 x d: 0.06).
Text: Inscribed within a moulded panel; the lower part of the face has been lost since the photograph was taken.
Letters: 0.015-0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: First century BCE - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: findspot unrecorded. Photographed in 1930.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

[---] Ϲίμω-
νοϲ (ἐτῶν) ιϛ´
[Δωσί]θεοϲ
[Ϲίμ]ωνοϲ
5[(ἐτῶν) ι̣γ´ ]

Diplomatic

[---]ϹΙΜΩ
ΝΟϹ L ΙϚ
[....]ΘΕΟϹ
[...]ΩΝΟϹ
5[..]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . -] (scil. son) of Simon, aged 16. Dositheos (scil. son) of Simon, aged 13.

Commentary

Restored letters in lines 2 to 5 are read from the photograph.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).