IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.328. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade, above an elaborately moulded door, within a tabella ansata (w: 0.76 x h: 0.53) whose surface is badly worn.
Letters: 0.02; lunate sigma, cursive omega; superscript bar above the figure in 1.5.

Date: First to third century CE

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East V, North wall.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

[---]Η
[---]Ι̣
Τ(ίτοϲ) Φλαβί[οϲ] ( vac. 3)
Ἀ̣ϲ̣κ̣λ̣α̣π̣ᾶϲ
5ἐτῶ( vac. 1)ν μ̣γ´

Diplomatic

[---]Η
[---].
ΤΦΛΑΒΙ[..]      
......ΑϹ
5ΕΤΩ  Ν.Γ

Apparatus

5: The cutter has avoided a hole in the stone.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] T(itos) Phlabios (i.e. T(itus) Flavius) Asklapas, aged 43.

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).