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C.642. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb, with C.642, C.643, C.644 and C.645 on the internal walls, above the burial places.
Text: Inscribed above the first niche in the west wall
Letters: Lines 1 1-2, 0.05; line 3, 0.04; lunate sigma; L for ἔτους

Date: Perhaps first century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, no precise location; first recorded in 1970.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) κ´ Ἀ̣ρ̣ιϲδ̣ι̣τα
Κοτύο̣υ̣
ΚΟΡΠ ( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

.Κ..ΙϹ..ΤΑ
ΚΟΤΥ..
ΚΟΡΠ      

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 20, ?Arisdita (scil. daughter) of Kotys [ . . .

Commentary

Line 1 year 20; but the sign L is uncertainly read.

l.3 Since the texts stands above a niche which can only have contained an urn with ashes this can hardly be a transcription of the Latin corp(us).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).