IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.75. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary anthropomorphic limestone stele, with rectangular ‘head’, broken away to upper left, inscribed with a circle, and ‘body’, broken below (w: 0.21 x h: 0.13).
Text: Inscribed on the body
Letters: Freehand, careful but shallow; lunate epsilon, sigma; 0.02.

Date: Probably first century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: in the area of Darnah
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum (Inv. no. 3412)

Interpretive

Εἰθαννυρας
ἐτελεύτησε
[ἐτῶν ---]

Diplomatic

ΕΙΘΑΝΝΥΡΑΣ
ΕΤΕΛΕΥΤΗΣΕ
[....---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Eithannuras died [aged ?.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 23 and fig. 59, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1989.839, SEG 37.1685
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).