IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.255. Funerary inscription

Description: ‘Anthropomorphic’ limestone stele, with rectangular ‘head’, and body; head shows eyes and mouth. (w: 0.22 x h: 0.38).
Text: Inscribed on the ‘body’.
Letters: Perhaps first century CE, carefully drawn between guidelines; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; 0.02.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Limnias.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum. (Inv. no. 2035)

Interpretive

Ἰ̣ο̣ύλιϲ
(ἐτῶν) νε´

Diplomatic

..ΥΛΙϹ
L ΝΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Julis, aged 55

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 13 and fig. 2 , whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1692
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, III.53)