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M.133. Funerary inscriptions

Description: No description. The Relazioni Scavi are explicit that only four of the group of stelae were inscribed, M.130, M.130 M.131 and M.132; but the departmental archives also contain this packet of squeezes.
Text: An unannotated and dilapidated squeeze is preserved in the Tolmeita archive; see on M.132.
Letters: Square sigma in the first entry, lunate sigma in the second, lunate epsilon, lunate sigma in the third. Stops between entries; superscript bars above left and the figures in lines 2, 3, and above the initials of Γαϊου in line 3

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Batta (formerly Oberdan); found in 1938
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Φιλοῦς Εὐφράν-
οροϲ (ἐτῶν) ξ´
ii
Γάϊοϲ
Γαίου (ἐτῶν) λε´
iii
Είραϲ
Γαίου (ἐτῶν) ζ´

Diplomatic

i
ΦΙΛΟΥΣΕΥΦΡΑΝ
ΟΡΟϹ L Ξ
ii
ΓΑΙΟϹ
ΓΑΙΟΥ L ΛΕ
iii
ΕΙΡΑϹ
ΓΑΙΟΥ L Ζ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(i): Philous (scil. daughter) of Euphranor aged 60; (ii): Gaios (i.e. Gaius) (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius), aged 35; (iii): Eiras (scil. son) of Gaios (i.e. Gaius) aged 7.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

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

Images

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