IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

P.404. Funerary inscription

Description: Rectangular sandstone block (w: 0.51 x h: 1.50 x d: 0.22)
Text: Inscribed on the upper part of the face between guidelines
Letters: Second-first century BCE; 0.03-0.039

Date: Second-first century BCE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Wadi Khambish, in a rock-cut grave near the Barka Gate and the Byzantine Castle; found in 2006
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Ἀιάλαντος
ἀκίνητος

Diplomatic

ΑΙΑΛΑΝΤΟΣ
ΑΚΙΝΗΤΟΣ

English translation

Translation source: Łajtar-el-Karim, 2008

Tomb of Aialan

Commentary

For discussion of the terminology see Łajtar and Abd el-Karim, art. cit., with Dobias-Lalou.

Bibliography: Łajtar-el-Karim, 2008, pp. 215-220, whence SEG 58.1841, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2012.504.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Łajtar).

Images

None available (2020).