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M.78. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone stele (w: 0.24 x h: 0.46) with acroteria and squared central projection above, perhaps the remains of a rudimentary head.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.025-0.03. Letters too rough to date; strongly marked guidelines.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira: Elved Ait el-Gazali, six kilometres SSW of Hamada (formerly Filzi) village, in a rock-cut chamber-tomb with M.77, M.79 and M.80; found in 1963.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tocra Museum

Interpretive

Λύκ̣α ἐτε̣λ̣-
εύτηϲ[ε]ν
ἐτῶν
π´

Diplomatic

ΛΥ.ΑΕΤ..
ΕΥΤΗϹ[.]Ν
ΕΤΩΝ
Π

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Luka died aged 80

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Reynolds-Bacchielli, 1987 Catalogo 42 and fig. 76, whence SEG 37.1727
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, Tocra X.1.18, NS.XI.18)