IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.108. Funerary inscription

Description: A stele, of redish stone, with a simple moulding above (h: 1.00, with base 1.35 x d: 0.10.
Text: Inscribed on the upper part of the face.
Letters: 0.025; superscript bars above the figures in line 1, and above the L in lines 1, 4.

Date: CE 42

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Barke, at the end of the former Viale Regina Elena in connexion with a reticulate structure and along with a female half-statue of sandstone (so Oliverio's notes)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Barke Museum; photographed in 1927

Interpretive

(ἔτους) οβ´ Μεχεὶρ κη´
Κλευπάτρα
Θευδότου
( vac. 2) (ἐτῶν) λ´ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΟΒΜΕΧΕΙΡΚΗ
ΚΛΕΥΠΑΤΡΑ
ΘΕΥΔΟΤΟΥ
     L Λ      

Apparatus

1: οβ : possibly ϲβ SECir, 1961-1962

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 72, 20.Mocheir, Kleupatra des Theudotos, 30 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 72, Mecheir 28: Kleupatra (scil. daughter) of Theodotos, aged 30.

Commentary

The name Theodotos may be Jewish.

Registered twice in LGPN: Θεύδοτος is also V1-61728; Kleupatra is also V1-61733

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 97, p.270 (assigning it to Beida), whence SEG 20.763, PHI 324518; republished Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 30.
Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument (Department of Antiquities, F. 1905)