Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed inside the tomb, above a niche, in two columns. Smith and Porcher's drawing is certainly difficult to interpret
since they show four different kinds of sigma as used in the same text.
It seems possible that square sigma was used consistently in the first column and four strokes sigma in the right.
Letters: Perhaps second century CE; square sigma and four strokes sigma in i; lunate sigma and four stroke sigma in ii.
Date: Perhaps second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
East Necropolis recorded in 1860.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1860)
Apparatus
3: Smith and Porcher read ΣΝ, perhaps for L N; it is possible that the correct reading was L EN, (ἐτῶν) εν' = aged 55.Italian translation
Translation source: Vitali, 1932
Gaio Apeisio Nigro anziano, sacerdote di Dionyso.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Gaios Apeisios Niger (i.e. Gaius Apisius Niger) the elder, aged ?50, priest of Dionysos.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Smith-Porcher, 1864, 28, p.116 and pl.85, whence SGDI, 4863, Vitali, 1932, 189, see also p. 137f.
Text constituted from: Previous publication (Reynolds)
Images
None available (2020).