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M.283. Funerary inscription

Description: Roughly prepared limestone stele with a semi circular projection above (w: 0.16-0.20 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.07)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: roughly cut, 0.05; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega.

Date: First - third 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. 3580)

Interpretive

[...άν-]
δρ̣ο̣ϲ̣ Λ̣ο̣υ̣κ̣ί̣ο̣υ̣
ἐτῶν ἐτελεύ-
τηϲε δέκα ὀ̣κ̣τ̣-
5( vac. )ώ

Diplomatic

[···..-]
Δ..........
ΕΤΩΝΕΤΕΛΕΥ
ΤΗϹΕΔΕΚΑ...
5      Ω

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995

[...]-andros (scil. son) of Loukios (i.e. Lucius) died, aged 18.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 3.b, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45. 2154
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).