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C.160. Funerary inscription

Description: Marble stele, moulded above, with two small holes drilled on the top near the front edge (w: 0.36 x h: 0.98 x d: 0.305).
Text: Inscribed on one face; C.161 was subsequently cut on the moulding above.
Letters: First century BCE: 0.053; a large ivy leaf below the text.

Date: First century BCE

Findspot: Cyrene: East Church: found in 1955 standing in the East apse
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (2004)

Interpretive

Ζηνίων
Ζηνίων-
( vac. 1) ος ( vac. 1) (ἔτους) α´
( vac. 2) ((leaf)) ( vac. 2)

Diplomatic

ΖΗΝΙΩΝ
ΖΗΝΙΩΝ
  ΟΣ   L Α
         

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003

Zenion (scil. son) of Zenion, aged 1

Commentary

Re-used in the East Church, which was built in the fifth century, but remodelled in the sixth.

Bibliography: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 153.14, whence SEG 53.2054, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, III.91.1

   Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds VI.2)