Epitaph
IGCyr006900
Trismegistos ID: 738175
Source Description
Support
Limestone built tomb ('temple-tomb'), for dimensions see commentary.
Layout
Probably cut on the stylobate, to the left.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by A. Cervelli between 1811 and 1812 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis .
Findspot
Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 in situ.
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5151 (Franz), from Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. 66, 8; SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864 (Blass). Also Cervelli, 1825 Cervelli, A., 1825, Relations inédites de la Cyrénaique: 1: Extrait du Journal d'une expédition faite en 1811 et 1812, de Tripoli à Derne, par les déserts, Recueil De Voyages Et De MémoiresSociété de géographie2, 15-31 - see in bibliography , p. 27 and pl. I.5.
Apparatus
1 CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Ἁγεμόνα Νικαίω : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ΑΓΕΜΙΟΝΑ.ΙΝΙΚΑΙΩ : Cervelli, 1825 Cervelli, A., 1825, Relations inédites de la Cyrénaique: 1: Extrait du Journal d'une expédition faite en 1811 et 1812, de Tripoli à Derne, par les déserts, Recueil De Voyages Et De MémoiresSociété de géographie2, 15-31 - see in bibliography ΤΕΜΟΝΑΙΝΙΚΑ | ΙΩ
French translation
Hagemona fille de Nikaios.
English translation
Hagemona daughter of Nikaios.
Italian translation
Hagemona figlia di Nikaios.
Arabic translation
هاجمونا ابنة نيكايوس
Commentary
This inscription was published in CIG from Pacho with help of a copy 'sent by Jomard'. The latter was the member of the Société de Géographie who cared for the edition of Cervelli's relation. 'Jomard's copy' should thus emanate from Cervelli, whose drawing is published there and informs us about the support. Strangely enough, Pacho and Cervelli give a different outlay, with the two last letters written on a second line below for Cervelli. However, there are many similarities in both readings and they probably saw one and the same inscription. The superfluous hastae in both copies might be in fact the limits of adjacent blocks of the building.
Cervelli's description: «Tombeau de Cyrène, long de six brasses, et large de deux et demie. Il ne s'en est détaché que quatre pierres. Le dessus est d'une seule pierre, qui a quatorse palmes. Il est en général bien conservé. J'en ai vu douze autres semblables à celui-ci, mais sans inscription aucune». In fact, we know of no other inscription cut on a temple-tomb.
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