IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.745. ?Funerary inscription

Description: Corner fragment of a marble panel (w: 0.14 x h: 0.10 x d: 0.035), with C.744 and C.745 on opposite and reversed faces.
Text: Inscribed on one face, at lower left corner.
Letters: 0.025 - 0.035; rougher than those of C.744, and showing the influence of ρustics.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Findspot unrecorded. Found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

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ΜΟ̣[---]
θαν[ατ---]

Diplomatic

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Μ.[---]
ΘΑΝ[..---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

Probably funerary. Line 1 is perhaps from Μοίραι, fate(s); line 2 is presumably a reference to death.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.16)

   Fig. 2. Face

   Fig. 3. From left: Unidentified, C.745, IGCyr 062830; behind, IGCyr 123800 .