IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.257. Funerary inscription

Description: Anthropomorphic limestone stele, with a very slight projection marking the ‘head’ (w: 0.235 x h: 0.30).
Text: Inscribed on the ‘body’.
Letters: Perhaps first to second century CE; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; there is a stop after the first name; 0.02.

Date: First to second centuries CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Limnias.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum. (Inv. no. 1707)

Interpretive

Ἀν̣τώνι-
ϲ Ἀντω-
νίω ἐ-
τῶν
5κε´

Diplomatic

Α.ΤΩΝΙ
ϹΑΝΤΩ
ΝΙΩΕ
ΤΩΝ
5ΚΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Antonis (i.e. Antonius) (scil. son) of Antonios (i.e. Antonius), aged 25.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 21 and fig. 57 , whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1699
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).