Honors or epitaph (?)

Bibliography

From †Oliverio's papers Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , n. 15, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.746; SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , p. 369; Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography , n. 2; CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography , n. 681.

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2 Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography , CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  μναμῆιον : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  μναμήϊον || Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  τα[---]  : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  τά[φωι ἀνδρὸς ἐφέστακ', ὅστις ὅτ' ἔζη]

3 Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  νικη[---]  : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  νίκη [πάντας ἑαῖς ἀρεταῖσι πολίτας·] : CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  νίκη [---] 

4 SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  ἦμεν : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  ἷμεν : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  ἠμὲν || τόδ[ε ---]  : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  ΤΟΔ[---]  : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  τόδ[ε γνοὺς καὶ κοινὸν χαῖρε προσείπας] : CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  τόδ[ε? ---] 

5 Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography , CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  σαμῆιον : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  σαμήϊον || εὐτυ̣[χίας ---]  : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  εὐτυ̣[---]  : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  εὐτυ[χῶν παρέρπ', ὁδοιπόρε.] : CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography  Eὐτύ[χ---] 

French translation

Aristi [---] .

Mémorial de  [---]  victoire/ayant vaincu en toutes les  [---]  que ceci soit aussi  [---]  signe de sa réussite  [---] .

English translation

Aristi [---] .

Memorial of  [---]  victory/having winned in all the  [---]  that this be also  [---]  sign of his success  [---] .

Italian translation

Aristi [---] .

Memoriale di  [---]  vittoria/avendo vinto in tutte le  [---]  che questo sia anche  [---]  segno del suo successo  [---] .

Arabic translation

أريستى [---]. نصب تذكاري [---]للنصر أو بعد الفوز في جميع ال[---] أن هذا يكون أيضًا [---] علامة على نجاحه [---].

Commentary

For μναμῆιον and σαμῆιον, at ll. 2 and 5, instead of an epic reading with diaeresis, the reading of suffixe ῆιο as dissyllabic along with the dialect is more plausible. See Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 22-24. Both words are placed so as to create a meaningful echo. Those words would well appear in a funerary context and Peek's restorations clearly rely on such an interpretation. However the support of funerary verse is normally a base or a stele. A panel might better fit a honorific monument.

At line 4, Hansen's idea in CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography of a personal name indicating the person responsible for the monument is interesting although not proved. Εὔτυχος is the only name attested for the Greek period of Cyrenaica. Altogether we prefer for metrical reason the abstract noun meaning 'good luck, success'. Joint to the idea of 'victory' (either with the name or with the verb), they are connected to the double function of the inscription, both intended to 'remember' and to 'give notice' of the deeds of Aristi[---]. The shape and dimensions might well fit the basis of one of the numerous reliefs with carriages of four horses that are now displaid in the Cyrene Museum.

Anyhow, the uncomplete personal name at line 1 was surely followed by the father's name. This shows that more than one half of each line of script is probably lost, whence a poem of four verses.

Metrical analysis: what we can say about those four lines is that they are all constituted of dactyls. We suppose that lines 3 and 5 were pentameters, but hexameters are not impossible. In σαμῆιον the diphthong of the second syllable (see above) is abbreviated in the hiatus. Nothing compels to find a iambic structure for line 5 as did Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography and differently Hansen in CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography .

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