Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a prepared area (w:
0.55 x h:
0.20) above the door.
Letters: First - second century: 0.02 - 0.025; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First to second century CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Bu Traba; (Chef el Chamis);
first recorded in 1924, near M.127.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
1: χρ : Τιμο]χά[ρους ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
2: Δειθ : Δειό[κλεια ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936 but the last surviving letter is either ε or θ
4: ἐπύσε ἡατῦς [καὶ τῦ]ς ἡ Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Teodoto di -ca- e D(e)io- di Eracon fece(ro) per sè e peri propri discendenti
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Theudotos [ . . . -chr- . . . and Deith[- (scil. son/s) of] Herakon set this up for themselves and their families.
Commentary
Line 1: Θευ]χρ[ήστου is a possibility for the patronymic.
Line 2: For Herakon see also M.127, line 1.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 481, pl. LXXXIX, fig. 64 (not legible), whence SEG 9.726.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 46.)