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M.158. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone block (w: 1.37 x h: 0.70 x d: 0.42)
Text: Inscribed on one side.
Letters: Perhaps second-third century; l.1, 0.2, l.2, 0.08; lunate sigma, nu for gamma; ivy leaf at the end.

Date: Perhaps second to third centuries CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Messa, to the right of the road leading to Wadi Ummgebib. Recorded in 1925 (see Oliverio's notes).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

( vac. 4)Καϲϲία-
( vac. 4)νοῦ Κλιϲία ((leaf))

Diplomatic

        ΚΑϹϹΙΑ
        ΝΟΥΚΛΙϹΙΑ

1: Κασσία SECir, 1961-1962
2: Νουκλισία SECir, 1961-1962

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(scil. Tomb) of Kassianos (scil. son) of Klisias.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 102 p.272, fig.80 (from T.XVII 17), whence SEG 20.758, PHI 324514.
Text constituted from: Transcription from publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).