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M.164. Funerary inscription

Description: Cut block of local limestone; w: 1.00 x h: 0.63, complete above and below but damaged above.
Text: Inscribed on one face
Letters: Average 0.07; crudely cut, with lunate and square forms of epsilon and omega; L for ἔτους (line 1) and ἐτῶν (l.4) where the word is also written out in full. Superscript bar above ζ in line 4.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: in the fore-court of a rock-cut tomb to the south west of Zāwiyat al Ḩanīyah. Recorded by Clermont-Ganneau in 1895; found again in 1968.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

(ἔτουϲ) δ´ ἐπὶ ἱερέωϲ
Ἀλεξάνδρω
Ἀριϲτανδρίδαϲ
Νικάω ἐτῶν (ἐτῶν) ιζ̣´

Diplomatic

L ΔΕΠΙΙΕΡΕΩϹ
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΩ
ΑΡΙϹΤΑΝΔΡΙΔΑϹ
ΝΙΚΑΩΕΤΩΝ L Ι.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Year 4, in the priesthood of Alexandros: Aristandridas (scil. son) of Nika(i)os, aged 17.

Commentary

Clermont-Ganneau received this copy from M. Guiraud, who had received it from an Arab copyist; he had copied the four lines of the text twice.

Bibliography: Masson-Reynolds, 1978, 3, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1979.653, SEG 27.1198
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).