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M.234. Funerary inscription

Description: A marble stele.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.028-0.03; lunate sigma and epsilon; L for ἐτῶν; in line 2, line above date and abbreviation.

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: between Cyrene and Apollonia, in the plain of Sidi Omran, near the marabout.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Μᾶρκοϲ Ἰούλι[οϲ]
(ἐτῶν) β´ ((stop)) Γ(άϊοϲ) Ἱούλιοϲ Ἡρα[κ-]
λείδηϲ ((stop))((stop)) (ἐτῶν) οδ´

Diplomatic

ΜΑΡΚΟϹΙΟΥΛΙ[..]
L Β ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟϹΗΡΑ[.-]
ΛΕΙΔΗϹ L ΟΔ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Marco Giulio, di anni 2. - Gaio Giulio Eraclide, di anni 74.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Marcus Julius aged 2. Marcus Julius Heraklides aged 74.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXV. 5, from which, and from a copy made in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian consul in Tripoli, CIG, Vol.III, 5176; Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 130 (122), p. L, fig. 85 (drawing), whence SEG 9.242, PHI 324092
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXV)