Fragmentary building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably not earlier than the third century
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...]ταντοϲ τῇ τέχνῃ τῶν ἐργαϲαμένων [...]

Apparatus

Translation

[ So-and-so, son of -]as, by the skill of ?the builders [ . . .

Commentary

It would appear that a monument (? a tomb), erected by a man of whose name only the end of the patronymic survives, was described as due in some way to the skill of the builders – an unprecendentedly sophisticated concept to appear in a country district of Cyrenaica.