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M.288. Funerary inscription

Description: Slightly tapered limestone stele, damaged above (w: 0.165 x h: 0.027 x d: 0.09)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: c. 0.014; lunate epsilon, sigma and omega.

Date: First century BCE - second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: East of Cyrene: Chersis, cemetery; found in 1988 by Dr Daoud Halag.
Original location: Kharsa cemetery
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum (Inv. no. 3649)

Interpretive

[---]
[---]
ἐτελεύτηϲ-
[εν] ἐτῶν ἑβδο-
5μήκοντα
[---]

Diplomatic

[---]
[---]
ΕΤΕΛΕΥΤΗϹ
[..]ΕΤΩΝΕΒΔΟ
5ΜΗΚΟΝΤΑ
[---]

English translation

Translation source: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995

[---] died, aged 70.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1995, 6, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1997.711, SEG 45. 2159
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).