Funerary inscription, Tomb N.66
created: From previous publications (Reynolds).
source date: First century A.D
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 585, with drawing, whence [...], I.1742, [...], 50; From these [...], 12.

For the tomb, [...], N.66, cf. 417, [...], 45.

Ἰωσῆς Κρίσπου ἐτῶν δ Κόϊντος Κοίντου ἐτῶν ιε Λύκα Γαίου ἐτῶν νη Σάρρα προσήλυτος ἐτῶν ιη

Apparatus

Translations

Joses des Crispus, 4 (Jahre); Quintus des Quintus, 15 (Jahre) Lyka des Gaius, 58 (Jahre); Sarra die Proselytin, 18 (Jahre)

Joses son of Krispos Crispus, aged 4; Kointos Quintus son of Kointos Quintus, aged 15; Lyka daughter of Gaios Gaius, aged 58; Sarra, proselyte, aged 18.

Commentary

The stele clearly marks the tomb of a Jewish family; see Lüderitz.

l.7 The only indication of Jewish proselytising so far discovered in Cyrenaica. Sarra has a Jewish name, which she may have taken upon conversion; given her ages she could well have been a slave or a foundling in a Jewish family (so JIWE 1.21, at PHI 178700).