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M.88. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade within a number of sunk, gabled panels, with M.87, M.88 and M.89; all are very worn and others are illegible.
Text: Inscribed within a gabled panel (w: 0.25 x h: 0.40), to the left of M.87.
Letters: 0.045.

Date: First century BCE to second century CE

Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene: Gariet Rdanu, Quarry, West wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

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[---]Ι̣Λ̣Α̣
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Diplomatic

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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(Not usefully translatable)

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. M.89 and M.88 (1968, Joyce Reynolds, IX.99)

   Fig. 2. Face (1968, Joyce Reynolds, I.6)

   Fig. 3. View of tomb: M.87, M.89 and M.88