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M.282. Funerary inscription

Description: Roughly prepared limestone stele, shaped to recall the upper part of a human body, and with a semicircular projection above (w: 0.23 x h: 0.20 x d: 0.07)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Roughly cut between visible guidelines 0.008-0.025; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega.

Date: First - second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Chersis, cemetery, near a rock-cut tomb, a group with M.282, M.283, M.284, M.285; found in 1988.
Original location: Kharsa cemetery
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum. (Inv. no. 3579)

Interpretive

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[Ϲε]κοῦνδ̣ο[ϲ]
Λ[ε]υκίπ̣ω
ἐτελεύτη-
5ϲεν ἐτῶν
( vac. ) μ´ ( vac. )

Diplomatic

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[..]ΚΟΥΝ.Ο[.]
Λ[.]ΥΚΙ.Ω
ΕΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ
5ϹΕΝΕΤΩΝ
      Μ      

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995

Secundus (scil. son) of Leukippos died, aged 40.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 3.a, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2153
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).