IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

T.566. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb inscribed on the façade with texts T.558, T.559, T.560, T.561, T.562, T.563, T.564, T.565, T.566.
Text: Inscribed within a rectangular panel, still partly buried, to the left of T.565.
Letters: No description

Date: December 13, CE 70

Findspot: Taucheira: Quarry East XV, Southwest corner: RAF Tomb B. First recorded in 1944?
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

(ἔτους) ρα̣´
[μ]η(νὶ) Χοιάχι ιη´
Δωσίθεος
------

Diplomatic

L Ρ.
[.]ΗΧΟΙΑΧΙΙΗ
ΔΩΣΙΘΕΟΣ
------

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1983

Year 101, month of Choiak 18, Dositheos . . .

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Year 101, month Choiak 18, Dositheos [ . . .

Commentary

Line 3: The name suggests a Jew.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1983, 20.i whence SEG 33.1439, PHI 324616
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).