IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

M.87. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade within a number of sunk, gabled panels, with M.87, M.88 and M.89; all are very worn and others are illegible.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.36 x h: 0.26), to the left of the door.
Letters: 0.025; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, square omega; strongly marked guidelines.

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Gariet Rdanu, Quarry, West wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Ε̣ἰ̣ρ̣η̣ν̣αῖοϲ̣
( vac. 1) ἐτῶν [.]
[c. 10]
Ἀρχ[c. 4]ϹΚ[.]
5[c. 4]ΟΥ[---]
[c. 10]

Diplomatic

.....ΑΙΟ.
  ΕΤΩΝ[·]
[··········]
ΑΡΧ[····]ϹΚ[·]
5[····]ΟΥ[---]
[··········]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Eirenaios aged [? . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1969, Reynolds NS.I.22)

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds IX.100)

   Fig. 3. Face (1968, Reynolds)

   Fig. 4. View of tomb: M.87, M.89 and M.88