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M.286. Funerary inscription

Description: Slightly tapered limestone stele, broken above, with propabale loss of a central projection (w: 0.025 x h: 0.26 x d: 0.05)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: l. 1, 0.015-0.02; line 2, 0.013; lines 3-4, 0.018. Lunate epsilon and sigma except for the number.

Date: First century BCE - second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Chersis, cemetery; found in 1988 by Dr Daoud Halag.
Original location: Kharsa cemetery
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum (Inv. no. 3650)

Interpretive

[---]
Ϲεκ̣αϲ ἐτ-
ελεύτηϲε
ἐτῶν εἴκο-
5σι ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---]
ϹΕ.ΑϹΕΤ
ΕΛΕΥΤΗϹΕ
ΕΤΩΝΕΙΚΟ
5ΣΙ      

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995

[---] ?Sekas ( or -sekas) died, aged 20.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 4, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45.2157
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).