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created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Probably first to second centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], LXIV.2, with Letronne, p.395-6, whence 2 [...], 5149; [...], 7 ζ-ο, fig. 19, whence [...] 9.745, [...] 9.746, [...] 9.747, [...] 9.748, [...] 9.749, [...] 9.750, [...] 9.751, [...] 9.752; see also [...], 10f.

Ἰάσονος τόπος

Διοσκουρίδης ἐπῆλθε

[...] Ἀράχω

Ϲ Ἀγαθόκλεα Ω Σωσιστράτιος

Δίων ἥκω Ἕλιξ ἥκω Πρόθυμος ἥκω Ῥῆσος ἥκω

νν Ἀγαθοκλῆς Ἀγαθοκλέους Ἰδουμαῖος Α Ο ἦλ θε

Apparatus

[^a1: at 2.c.1: ἀγαθεκλεα | ἀγάθοκλε(ι)α ?]

Translation

[1]: Place of Iason; [1]: Place of Iason; [2.a]: Dioskourides came; [2.b]: . . . ] Aracho; [2.c]: Agathokleia daughter of Sosistratos; [3.a]: I Dion have come; I Helix have come; I Prothymos have come; I Rhesos have come; [3.b]: Agathokles son of Agathokles, an Idumaean [ . . . ] came

Commentary

1: The normal sense of this formula in Cyrene is funerary, and Ferri in fact suggested that this chamber had originally been cut as a tomb, see also M.206, above; but it is difficult to feel that this is correct, all the more as this text seems to be unrelated to any loculus or other type of burial place. Ferri's alternative suggestion that Jason was the owner of the site seems more acceptable; but it may be that this is simply indicating the place where Jason wrote his name; compare also the name in the genitive in M.208 1.a.

2.a, 3.a, 3.b: The references to coming to the location make it clear that these are pilgrims.

3.b: Idumaean: see on M.208.