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C.508. Funerary inscription, Tomb W.85

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed to the right of the entrance within a rectangular panel (w: 0.28 x h: 0.62). There is an incised gable above the text.
Letters: Augustan - first century CE: 0.025; lines 2-5, 0.02; line 6. 0.03; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: Augustan to first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: West Necropolis, a façade sarcophagus tomb, W.85; first recorded in 1955.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) δ´
Θεύδωροϲ
Τιμάρ̣χω
( vac. 1 line)
Πρᾶξιϲ
5Τιμάρ̣χω̣
( vac. 2) (ἐτῶν) κδ´ ( vac. 2)

Diplomatic

L Δ
ΘΕΥΔΩΡΟϹ
ΤΙΜΑ.ΧΩ
     vacat
ΠΡΑΞΙϹ
5ΤΙΜΑ.Χ.
     L ΚΔ    

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Year 4. Theudoros (scil. son) of Timarchos.

Praxis (scil. son) of Timarchos aged 24.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mentioned Goodchild, 1971, 170, n.142 For the tomb Cassels, 1955, W.85, Thorn, 2009, 295
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).