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C.733. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone stele broken at the upper right corner (w: 0.23 x h: 0.41 x d: 0.18).
Text: Inscribed on one rough face within a deeply sunk panel.
Letters: Very irregular sprawling hand: lines 1,2, 0.03; lines 3-10, 0.02; cursive omega throughout and lunate epsilon in the second entry.

Date: 55-56 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: findspot unrecorded. Photographed in 1936.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) πϛ̣´ ἐπὶ
ἱερέ-
ως Πα-
νκλεῦς
5Ἐπ̣αγ̣ὼ̣
Φίλωνος
ἐτῶν μ´
καὶ Ἰάσων
Π̣α̣σ̣ιτέλο̣-
10υ ἐτῶν π´

Diplomatic

L Π.ΕΠΙ
ΙΕΡΕ
ΩΣΠΑ
ΝΚΛΕΥΣ
5Ε.Α..
ΦΙΛΩΝΟΣ
ΕΤΩΝΜ
ΚΑΙΙΑΣΩΝ
...ΙΤΕΛ.
10ΥΕΤΩΝΠ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 86, in the priesthood of Pankles, Epago (scil. daughter) of Philon aged 40 and Iason, (scil. son) of Pasiteles, aged 80

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Department of Antiquities, 6720-3035)

   Fig. 2. Face (Department of Antiquities, 6721-3036)