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M.100. Funerary inscription

Description: Upper part of a gable-headed brown limestone stele (w: 0.44 x h: 0.26 x d: 0.10). There is a rosette in relief in the gable.
Text: Inscribed on the architrave, which was supported by pillars in relief
Letters: Average 0.015; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Ghot Jinoubl; found in 1971.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tocra Museum

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ´ Μεχὶρ γ´ Τ(ίτος) Κ̣αί̣ϲ̣ιο̣ϲ
( vac. ) Π̣[ο?]λ̣λ̣ι̣[αν?]όϲ ( vac. )

Diplomatic

L ΘΜΕΧΙΡΓΤ.Α..Ι.Ϲ
      .[.]...[..]ΟϹ      

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 9, Mecheir 3: T(itus) Kaisios ?Pollianos

Commentary

Presumably kin - a brother? - to the man in M.99, who died in the same year.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds 1971.4, NS.XIV.23)