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M.216. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone stele, broken below (w: 0.40 x h: 0.60 x d: 0.20).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.07, square sigma, L for ἐτῶν.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: in a rock-cut tomb at Buerifa, c. 200m north of the South road from Beida to Cyrene (crossroads); seen in 1961 by M. Harrison.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Τειμάϲ-
ϲα (ἐτῶν) ν´

Diplomatic

ΤΕΙΜΑϹ
ϹΑ L Ν

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Teimassa, aged 50

Commentary

This may be identical with the stone recorded at the Cyrene Museum by 1979, C.754.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (Harrison)

Images

None available (2020).