Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 22/23
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 2 and plate IV, whence [...] 42.1662; also [...], 1 and plate XXVII.a, whence [...], 1997.711, [...] 45.2151

ἐτῶν γν Ἰάϲων ἀπέθανε ἐτῶν μη

Translation

?Year 53: Jason died, aged 48

Commentary

Line 1: ἐτῶν is presumably an error for ἔτους.

Line 2: Jason is one of the commonest Greek names in use in Cyrenaica, see LGPN.

Line 4: the inclusion of a verb is comparatively rare in Cyrenaican funerary texts, but frequent in this group

Line 5: the siglum is not absolutely certain but must have been intended; the cutter did not, perhaps, understand what he was copying.