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M.276. Funerary inscription

Description: A rock-cut tomb, inscribed on the façade.
Text: Text cut within three panels, with space above the texts for relief images, now worn away.
Letters: First century CE; too high to measure; written freehand and roughly cut; lunate sigma, L for ἐτῶν in c.

Date: First century A. D.

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Ralles, near Beit Tamer
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

a
Γ(άιος) Ἰουλιος
Ῥοῦφος
[c. 6]
b
Γ(άιος) Ἰουλιος
Ῥοῦφος
ἐτῶν
[---]
c
Λούκιος
Κόιντος
Α̣Ζ̣ΑΖ̣ΕΟ̣Ε̣Α̣
(ἐτῶν) μ´

Diplomatic

a
ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ
ΡΟΥΦΟΣ
[······]
b
ΓΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ
ΡΟΥΦΟΣ
ΕΤΩΝ
[---]
c
ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
ΚΟΙΝΤΟΣ
..Α.Ε...
L Μ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(a): G(aios) Ioulios Rouphos (i.e. G(aius) Julius Rufus), [ . . . . . . ]

(b): G(aios) Ioulios Rouphos (i.e. G(aius) Julius Rufus), aged [ . . . ]

(c): Loukios Kouintos (i.e. Lucius Quintus) ?AZAZ [ . . . ] aged 40

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987, 492-3, and figs. 39-40, whence SEG 37.1721
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).