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M.149. Funerary inscription

Description: Upper part of a brown limestone stele (w: 0.30 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.085).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a lightly sunk panel (w: 0.26 x h: 0.24).
Letters: First-second century: 0.02 - 0.025; lunate sigma, cursive omega; F for ἔτους; rather roughly cut between strongly marked guide-lines.

Date: 110/111 CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Umm Heneia, on the upper Plateau; found in 1963.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρμα´ Θ̣ώ-
θυ ζ´ Νικα-
ϲὼ Παν-
χάρου (ἐτῶν)
5κη´

Diplomatic

L ΡΜΑ.Ω
ΘΥΖΝΙΚΑ
ϹΩΠΑΝ
ΧΑΡΟΥ L
5ΚΗ

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 141, Thoth 7: Nikaso (scil. daughter) of Panchares, aged 28.

Commentary

Line 1: the sign used is unusual, F.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds IX.70)