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C.755. Funerary inscriptions

Description: Rectangular stele of brown limestone (w: 0.41 x h: 0.71 x d: 0.15).
Text: Inscribed on one face which is in poor condition.
Letters: Freehand letters, first-second century: 0.02, cursive omega; very lightly cut between guide-lines.

Date: 87-90 CE

Findspot: Cyrene: location unknown; found between 1965 and 1968.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ριη´ Μεχὶρ Νικασὼ Νεικ-
οδήμω (ἐτῶν) ε̣ι´ (ἔτους) ρκ´ Χοι{α}-
ὰχ εκ´ [---]τοκρίτη Νε[ι-
κο]δ̣[ή]μ̣ω (ἐτῶν) κβ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΡΙΗΜΕΧΙΡΝΙΚΑΣΩΝΕΙΚ
ΟΔΗΜΩ LL ΡΚΧΟΙΑ
ΑΧΕΚ[---]ΤΟΚΡΙΤΗΝΕ[...].[.].Ω L Κ.

Apparatus

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 118, Mecheir, Nikaso (scil. daughter) of Neikodemos, aged 15. Year 120, Choiak 25, [ . . -]okrite (scil. daughter) of Neikodemos aged 22.

Commentary

Line 1: no day of the month seems to have been inscribed.

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (1968, Joyce Reynolds, I. 12)

   Fig. 2. Face (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1979: MFA 79/X/18)