IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.281. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on one façade which has been dressed to resemble masonry.
Letters: Augustan, first century CE: line 1, 0.075; line 2, 0.08; small ivy leaf stops.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Quarry II.i, west wall; found in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Urbasia ((leaf)) T(iti) ((leaf)) l(iberta) ((leaf)) Dioḍ[o]ṛa
( vac. 4) sibi ((leaf)) et ((leaf)) suis ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

URBASIA T L DIO.[.].A
        SIBI ET SUIS      

Apparatus

1: Diod[o]ra : DIOI/// Pacho, 1827

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Urbasia, the freedwoman of Titus … Diodora, for herself and her family.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX), whence CIL, 7
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXVIII, numbered LXXIX)

   Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, Tolmeita I. 40)