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C.754. Funerary inscription

Description: Funerary stele of brown limestone, with simple moulding above and below, damaged at the upper right corner (w: 0.23 x h: 0.62 x d: 0.18).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Freehand letters, probably second century CE: c. 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, roughly cut.

Date: probably second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: location unknown; found between 1965 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, at the Casa Parisi.

Interpretive

Τιμ̣[άϲ-]
ϲα Μα-
τα ἐτῶ-
ν ((leaf)) ξγ´

Diplomatic

ΤΙ.[..-]
ϹΑΜΑ
ΤΑΕΤΩ
Ν ΞΓ

Apparatus

2: A small gap between Α and M strongly suggests this word division.
4: Dobias-Lalou suggests that the leaf recorded by Reynolds may be the year symbol, added despite the word being written out in full.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Timasa Mata, aged 63

Commentary

This might be identical with the stone seen at Buerifa by Martin Harrison in 1961, M.216.

Line 3: For the name see also C.753 and discussion there.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Dobias-Lalou, Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face, with M.190 behind

   Fig. 2. C.754 (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1979: MFA 79/X/22)