Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade.
Text: Inscribed within a panel surrounded by an incised line (w:
0.40 x h:
0.24) beside the door. In all areas marked as vacat, the surface is badly worn;
all or some may have originally contained letters.
Letters: 0.04; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; the last letter of line 1 is outside the panel.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Bu Traba (Chef el Chamis);
first recorded in 1924, near M.126.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Filippo di Eracon ed Eufrò fecero per sé stessi
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Philippos (scil. son) of Herakon, and Euphro [ . . .] set this up for themselves.
Commentary
Line 5: clearly for ἑαυτοῖς.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 480, pl. LXXXVIII, fig. 63 (not legible), whence SEG 9.725.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 48.)