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M.266. Funerary inscription

Description: Left side of a brown limestone stele with acroteria at the upper corners and a crude head projecting from the centre top (w: 0.19 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.17).
Text: Inscribed on the body which is in poor condition.
Letters: Freehand letters, 0.015; lunate sigma, roughly cut between strongly marked guide-lines.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Limnias; found between 1965 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Μ̣Ε̣Ν̣ [---]
Ι̣Α̣Ϲ̣[---]
ἐτ[ῶν c. 1 - 2] [---]

Diplomatic

...[---]
...[---]
ΕΤ[..c. 1 - 2---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

. . . aged . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 7 and fig. 45, whence SEG 37.1690
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Monument (1968, Joyce Reynolds, I. 13)