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M.262. Funerary inscription

Description: Stele of brown limestone with crude head projecting above (w: 0.175 x h: 0.295 x d: 0.14).
Text: inscribed on one face which is very worn.
Letters: Freehand letters; 0.02, lunate epsilon, omega; very roughly cut between deep guidelines.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Limnias; found in 1961.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Casa Parisi. (Inv. no. 1515)

Interpretive

(ἔτους) θ̣´
[.. ? ..] ( vac. )Ε[.. ? ..]
Φίλων ἐ-
τῶν [..]

Diplomatic

L .
[.. ? ..]  Ε[.. ? ..]
ΦΙΛΩΝΕ
ΤΩΝ[··]

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Editors

?Year 9: . . Philon, aged ?

Commentary

Lines 1-2: these could be casual traces.

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 17 and fig. 53, whence SEG 37.1695.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. M.261 and M.262 (Reynolds III.56)