Description: Rock-cut tomb
Text: Inscribed above the door, i to the left, ii to the right.
Letters: 0.032 (phi 0.05); lunate omega. First century CE; the reduplicated sigma is a feature often found in the first century CE.
Date: CE 53-4
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Taurguni, a little west of the road from Messa to Haniya,
near M.143. Recorded in Taurguni, probably before 1941, in a drawing by an unknown
observer deposited in the photographic archive at Cyrene; recorded again in 1991.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
Τελέσω : ΠΔΕΛΕΣΩEnglish translation
Translation by: Editors
i. Euphranor [ . . .
ii. Year 84: Teleso (scil. daughter) of Arissteas, aged 36.
Commentary
There were probably two names, each with patronymic and perhaps age.
Despite being found near a boundary marker (M.143), the tomb is clearly outside the limits of the estate.
Bibliography: Mohamed, 1996, 130, whence SEG 46.2219.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).