Description: Sarcophagus lid.
Text: Inscribed on the top. Sarcophagi of this type are normally dated in the fourth century BCE;
this inscription may indicate the re-use of one in the Roman period.
Letters: ?Second century CE; 0.10; square sigma.
Date: ?Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, near N.173;
recorded in 1936.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Not seen.
Italian translation
Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
Faustina, di anni 20
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Fausteina (scil. aged) 20
Commentary
If this reading is correct, the final letter presumably records the subject's age.
Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 124 (116), pl. L, fig. 79 (drawing only), whence SEG 9.236, PHI 324086; mentioned, Cassels, 1955, p. 10, whence a mention, SEG 16.871. For the tomb see Cassels, 1955 N.173; Thorn, 2009, 69-70.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)
Images
None available (2020).