Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
availability: Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/) All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/

Bibliography

[...] LXXIX and Letronne p.402, whence [...], 5241, whence [...], I.1027.

[...] καὶ Γαΐᾳ ιιοιια ϲυνβίῳ μου ἀπαγορεύω δὲ ἕτερόν τινα μὴ ἀνῦξαι μηδὲ θάψαι ἐκτὸϲ εἰ μὴ παιδὶ αὑτοῦ· εἰ δ’ οὖν ἐκτείϲει τῷ ταμείῳ δενάρια αφ

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: ΓΑΙΑΙΙ ΟΙΛΙ | Γαίᾳ [Ἰ]ο[υλίᾳ] [whence IGRR]]

[^a2: at 2: μὴ | UΗ]

[^a3: at 3: ΓΑΙΑΙΙ ΟΙΛΙ | Γαίᾳ [Ἰ]ο[υλίᾳ] [whence IGRR]]

[...] and for Gaia my wife, I forbid any one else to open (the tomb) or to bury anyone except my own son; Consequently, if someone does, he will pay to the Treasury 1,500 denarii.

Line 1: there is no space for another line above this, so that the husband's name must have been inscribed on the sarcophagus lid.

Line 2-3: for another injunction against reuse see P.266; it is rare in Cyrenaica but especially common in Asia Minor and here may indicate a family of immigrants who came from Asia Minor to Cyrenaica after the Jewish Revolt.