Description: Buried rock-cut tomb, with a façade cut to resemble masonry walling,
interrupted by one door with a well-cut frame.
Texts C.539, C.540,
C.541, C.542, C.543,
C.544, C.545,
C.546, were later inscribed on the façade, C.547 within.
Text: Inscribed to the right of C.541, cut in a sunken niche
(w:
0.20 x h:
0.36) with an outline of a gable and acroteria above. i within the gable, ii within the niche.
Letters: 0.03 rather lightly cut; lunate epsilon, sigma; L for ἔτους/ἐτῶν.
Date: 4-5 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, Wadi el-Aish. Excavated by the Department of Antiquities in 1981.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997
(i): Year 35.
(ii): Mata (scil. daughter) of Theoudotos, aged 17, a maiden, missed by all.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.d and pl.IX.b, , whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.D
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).