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.543, cut within a niche (w: 0.21 x h: 0.29) sunk within a much larger niche (apparently uninscribed).
Letters: 0.025; fairly well aligned and quite carefully cut; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; L for ἔτους/ἐτῶν.

Date: 18-19 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: South Necropolis, Wadi el-Aish. Excavated by the Department of Antiquities in 1981.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 1.f and pl.IX.b, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2196.F
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

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