IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.113. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment, probably of limestone.
Text: Inscribed.
Letters: Clear and regular, cursive omega. No measurements.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: area of Barke.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Barke Museum, photographed in 1930.

Interpretive

[---]ωχα
[---]αμω
[---]γ´ ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---]ΩΧΑ
[---]ΑΜΩ
[---]Γ      

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(Not usefully translatable.)

Commentary

Lines 1-2: almost certainly the remains of two names, one feminine, in the nominative, the other, masculine, in the genitive.

Line 3: probably the age of the dead, of which only a digit, γ = 3, survives.

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

Images

   Fig. 1. Text (Department of Antiquities, E. 1404)

   Fig. 2. From left: M.300(above), M.113 (below), M.114 and M.112 (Department of Antiquities, E. 1404)