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C.645. 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 door of the central vault in the east wall
Letters: Line 1, 0.04-5; lunate sigma; lunate epsilon.

Date: Perhaps first century CE

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

Interpretive

[Ἐ]π̣ι̣γένηϲ
Χαιρ̣ε̣ϲίλ[α]

Diplomatic

[.]..ΓΕΝΗϹ
ΧΑΙ..ϹΙΛ[.]

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Epigenes (scil. son) of Chairesilas

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).