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C.778. Fragmentary funerary inscription

Description: Two adjoining fragments of a marble block, moulded above and below (w: 0.13 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.19); the top surface flat, the under one hollowed out.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Perhaps second century: 0.027; cursive omega. Superscript bar above figures.

Date: Perhaps second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Findspot unrecorded. Bought from an Arab in November 1910 by the Norton expedition.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene (1910)

Interpretive

[---]ι̣ος
[--- ἐτ]ῶν ια´

Diplomatic

[---].ΟΣ
[---..]ΩΝΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

... aged 11.

Commentary

All details and text are taken from Robinson.

Bibliography: Robinson, 1913, from De Cou, 32, and a photograph, fig. 24.
Text constituted from: Publication

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1910, Norton 2)