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M.116. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone stele, roughly rectangular, broken at the top (w: 0.19 x h: 0.42 x d: 0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lines 1-3, 0.04; lines 4,5, 0.03; L for ἔτους; cursive omega; superscript bar above the figure in line 2.

Date: ?20-19 BCE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: area of Barke; recorded in Barke Museum shortly after 1946, with M.105.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Now in Cyrene Museum

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ιβ´ Χο-
ιάχι κδ´
Ἅβρολ-
α Λουκ-
5ίω (ἐτῶν) ξ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΙΒΧΟ
ΙΑΧΙΚΔ
ΑΒΡΟΛ
ΑΛΟΥΚ
5ΙΩ L .

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 12, Choiak 24: Habrola (scil. daughter) of Loukios (i.e. Lucius), aged 60

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 275 (assigning to Cyrene).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Oliverio's notes).

Images

   Fig. 1. C.736, C.621 and M.116

   Fig. 2. Face (1961, E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds VI.40)