IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.409. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, in the area above above T.410 ff.
Text: Inscribed high on the façade above a rectangular niche, within a triangular area defined on two sides by an incised line and below by the top of the niche, the face badly worn (0.11). The reading is uncertain throughout, but the existence of the text is of interest in showing that the niches as well as the chamber-tombs were sometimes inscribed.
Letters: Lunate epsilon, cursive omega

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XII, high on the South wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Α̣ΝΩ
Ε̣ΤΙΕ̣Ι̣Π̣Ι̣Ν̣[.]
[Ἀπο]λ̣λωνί-
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Diplomatic

.ΝΩ
.ΤΙ.....[·]
[...].ΛΩΝΙ
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Apparatus

3: Perhaps [Ἀπο]λλώνι[ος, or [Ἀπο]λλώνι[δης

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. View (Joyce Reynolds, Tocra IX.4.17A, NS.X.17)