IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.523. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade, with inscriptions T.516, T.517, T.518, T.519, T.520, T.521, T.522, T.523, T.524, T.525, T.526, T.527, T.528, T.529.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular prepared area (w: 0.30 x h: 0.23), to the left of the door, below T.522, above T.524.
Letters: 0.03; lunate sigma, cursive omega, L for ἔτους ἐτῶν.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, South wall. First recorded in 1952.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ι̣´ Μ̣εχ̣ε̣ὶ̣ρ̣ [.]
Ἁγ̣ε̣μόνα
Ϲωγένευϲ
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) λγ´ ( vac. 1)

Diplomatic

L ..Ε....[·]
Α..ΜΟΝΑ
ϹΩΓΕΝΕΥϹ
   L ΛΓ  

Apparatus

1: LΙ ? Gray, 1956
2: ? Gray, 1956

English translation

Translation source: Gray, 1956

Year 1?, . . . . . ? of Sogenes, aged 33.

German translation

Translation source: Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983

(Jahr) 10, . . . Mecheir, Hagemona des Sogenes, 33 (Jahre)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 10, Mecheir ?, Hagemona (scil. daughter) of Sogenes, aged 33.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Gray, 1956, 34, whence, with readings by J. Reynolds, SEG 16.917, PHI 324400; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 50.f, whence SEG 33.1490, PHI 324665.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above, T.526 (part),T.523; T.528, T.527, T.524 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Tocra IX.3.24a, NS.X.24)