IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.625. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed within a sunk panel on the façade, which is still largely buried.
Text: Inscribed within a sunk panel (w: 0.31 x h: 0.51), to the right of a door.
Letters: 0.04; L for ἔτους, ἐτῶν.

Date: First to second century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, East wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) α´ Μεσορὶ
κ´ Λούκιος
Ἰάσονος
( vac. 1) (ἐτῶν) κ´

Diplomatic

L ΑΜΕΣΟΡΙ
ΚΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ
ΙΑΣΟΝΟΣ
   L Κ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 1, Mesore 20, Loukios (i.e. Lucius) (scil. son) of Iason, aged 20.

Commentary

l.2 (August 13).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. In the foreground, T.625, and an unidentified text; in the background T.630 T.631, T.632, T.633, T.634, T.636, T.637 and T.638 behind (Reynolds NS.I.3)