Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second or third century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

Ἀυρηλίᾳ Θεοδώρᾳ τῇ ϲωφρονεϲτάτῃ ϲυμβίῳ Κλαύδιοϲ Ϲεκοῦνδοϲ ὁ καὶ Πειρήνιοϲ μνείαϲ χάριν μητρὶ ἱππικοῦ [...] [...]

Translation

For Aυrelia Theodora, his most chaste wife, Kl(audios) Sekoundos Cl(audius) Secundus also known as Peirenios made this for her memory, the mother of an equestrian [ . . .

Commentary

The formulae recall tombstones of Asia Minor rather than the local tradition, and it would be reasonable to suspect that the subjects may have been immigrants, or the descendents of immigrants, perhaps under the schemas of Trajan and Hadrian to repopulate Cyrenaica after the Jewish revolt of CE 115.