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M.299. Funerary inscription

Description: Irregularly shaped but approximately rectangular limestone stele, broader and deeper at the bottom than the top (w: 0.16-0.135 x h: 0.29 x d: 0.18-0.145).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is chipped between lines 4 and 5; good clear lettering.
Letters: Perhaps second century CE; 0.032-0.04; lunate sigma and omega, cursive mu; L for ἐτῶν, probably with a superscript bar.

Date: Second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Umm ar Rizam, ca. 25 km. east of Martubah; found by Mr Saleh Belgassim Ishelwi in a funerary enclosure.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Μαθ-
ουνι-
ϲχαρα
Δίωνο-
5ϲ (ἐτῶν) ο´

Diplomatic

ΜΑΘ
ΟΥΝΙ
ϹΧΑΡΑ
ΔΙΩΝΟ
5Ϲ L Ο

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Mathounischara (scil. daughter) of Dion, aged 70

Commentary

This name is otherwise unattested, with no obvious links to Greek or Libyan onomastics.

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998, 2, pp. 140-142, and pl.III, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.625, SEG 48.2066; mentioned Mohamed-Reynolds, 2000, 138
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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