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M.267. Funerary inscription

Description: Brown limestone stele, with traces of a projection above, presumably in imitation of a human head (w: 0.215 x h: 0.265 x d: 0.215).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Freehand letters, probably first-second century CE: 0.02; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega; roughly and lightly cut between strongly marked guidelines.

Date: Probably first to second centuries CE

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

Interpretive

[(ἔτους)] θ̣´ ( vac. 3)
Ἀϲκληπιά-
δηϲ ἐτῶν
( vac. 1) κε´ ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

[].      
ΑϹΚΛΗΠΙΑ
ΔΗϹΕΤΩΝ
  ΚΕ  

English translation

Translation by: Editors

[Year] ?9, Asklepiades, aged 25

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987Catalogo 19 and fig. 55, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1697
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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