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M.287. Funerary inscription

Description: Slightly tapered limestone stele with a central projection above (w: 0.255 x h: 0.28 x d: 0.08)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.02; line 2, 0.022; line 3, 0.018; cut between visible guidelines; lunate epsilon and omega.

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. 3651)

Interpretive

Ἁγίων
ἐτελεύτ[ηϲεν]
ἐτῶν [..]

Diplomatic

ΑΓΙΩΝ
ΕΤΕΛΕΥΤ[....]
ΕΤΩΝ[··]

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995

Hagion died aged [?].

Commentary

For the name see Dobias-Lalou, loc.cit.

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 5, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45. 2158
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).