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M.279. Funerary inscription

Description: Rectangular stele of sandstone (w: 0.25 x h: 0.44 x d: 0.085).
Text: Inscribed on one face within a panel outlined by an incised line (w: 0.21 x h: 0.31), a pair with M.280, q.v.; above the text an incised arch contains a similarly incised circle surrounding a four-petalled flower and two palm branches.
Letters: Freehand letters, first-second century CE; 0.02; lunate epsilon; lunate sigma, lightly incised and rather irregular, between strongly marked guide-lines.

Date: 111/112 CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Blekhna on the edge of the upper escarpment north of Safsaf; found in 1956, with M.280.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum 74-1110. (Inv. no. 74-1110)

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρμβ´ Φιλίππ-
α Ἀριϲτοκράτ-
ου (ἐτῶν) με´

Diplomatic

L ΡΜΒΦΙΛΙΠΠ
ΑΑΡΙϹΤΟΚΡΑΤ
ΟΥ L ΜΕ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 142: Philippa (scil. daughter) of Aristokrates, aged 45.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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