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M.249. Funerary inscription

Description: Funerary stele of brown limestone, moulded above and below, the upper moulding terminating in three triangular projections (w: 0.285 x h: 0.515 x d: 0.16).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Freehand letters, probably first-second century CE: 0.035; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, cut between strongly marked guide-lines.

Date: Probably first to second centuries CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Gernada, (Battisti) on the Slonta road, a little south of the Cyrene cross-roads; found in 1966 with M.250.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Εἰρηνᾶϲ
Εἰρηνᾶ
(ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

ΕΙΡΗΝΑϹ
ΕΙΡΗΝΑ
L Κ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Eirenas (scil. son) of Eirenas, aged 20

Commentary

Perhaps Jewish

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 2, whence SEG 33.1371, whence PHI 324555.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).