IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.342. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door (no panel; width of inscription, 0.72).
Letters:

Date: Late first century BCE to mid first century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East VII, North wall. Recorded in 1936; not found again. There are a number of illegible inscriptions in this quarry and it may be that the surface here has deteriorated into illegibility since 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1936).

Interpretive

Λ(ουκίου) Ἰουλίου

Diplomatic

ΛΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Di L(ucio) Giulio

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(scil. Tomb) of L(oukios) Ioulios (i.e. L(ucius) Julius)

Commentary

L1: The absence of a cognomen suggests a date not much later than the mid First cent. CE

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 320 (195, La.VII.2), whence SEG 9.586
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).