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M.217. Funerary inscription

Description: Marble stele moulded above (w: 0.42 x h: 1.19 x d: 0.14)
Text: Inscribed on the face; each entry in a different hand.
Letters: First century CE: line 1, 0.025; line 2ff., 0.02; L for ἔτους; superscript bar above the second figure in line 1, above L, and the figure in line 2; tricorn stops.

Date: 69 CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Road from Beida to Cyrene, near the Cyrene cross roads; found in 1956.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

( vac. 3) (ἔτους) ρ´ Ἁθὺρ κθ´ ( vac. 3)
Δαμοκράτης Ἀλέξεις (ἐτῶν) ε´
( vac. 1 line)
Θεύδωρος Ἁγησιστράτω
( vac. 3) (ἐτῶν) ιβ´ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

       L ΡΑΘΥΡΚΘ      
ΔΑΜΟΚΡΑΤΗΣΑΛΕΞΕΙΣ L Ε
     vacat
ΘΕΥΔΩΡΟΣΑΓΗΣΙΣΤΡΑΤΩ
       L ΙΒ      

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 100, Hathyr 29: Damokrates (scil. son) of Alexis, aged 5. Theudoros (scil. son) of Hagistratos, aged 12

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.91)

   Fig. 2. Monument (Joyce Reynolds, I.3)

   Fig. 3. Text (Joyce Reynolds, II.91.5)