Description: Rock-cut tomb,
with C.567 and C.568 on internal walls.
Text: Inscribed, i at the right hand end of the wall opposite the door;
ii. at the left hand end of the wall to the right of the door.
Letters: Second-third century; lunate sigma, square sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Second or third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, N.83; first recorded
in 1825
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(Not usefully translatable)
Commentary
i: Perhaps a reference the name Rufus (l.3); to a brother or sister (l.5); to an age at death - 51 (l.8).
ii: Perhaps a reference (l.6) to an age at death, 75.
Bibliography: Text recorded Pacho, 1827, LXIV.2, among the texts from Budrasc, but not reprinted in CIG: 'neque attingo quae ad dextram in alto sunt posita'; Published
Reynolds-Rees, 1992, I whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1993.700, SEG 42.1674, Feissel, 2006 998.For the tomb see Cassels, 1955, N.83, Thorn, 2009, 50, with bibliography
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXIV)
Fig. 2. View