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C.627. Funerary inscription, Tomb S.147

Description: Rock-cut tomb, with inscriptions C.625, C.626, C.627 and C.628 on internal walls.
Text: Painted on the wall, to the right of C.626, above C.628.
Letters: A little larger than those of C.626: no measurements.

Date: ?Second century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, Tomb S.147; first recorded in 1825
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot (2006)

Interpretive

[ὑγίαι]νε καλὲ κ̣[ἀγαθὲ ---]

Diplomatic

[.....]ΝΕΚΑΛΕ.[.....---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

[Be we]ll, noble and [good . . .

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXV.11, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5179 For the tomb see Thorn, 2009, 233, Cinalli, 2016, 199, and figs. 9.7-11.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

   Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXV)