Epitaph
IGCyr007000
Trismegistos ID: 738176
Source Description
Support
Funeral chamber of a rock-cut tomb with three loculi at right and left and two at the rear (0.84; 0.09; -).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the lintel of the first left-hand loculus.
Letters
0.035; slight serifs, small omicron high above the line, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of the third century B.C.
Findspot
First copied in 1825 by J.-R. Pacho at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , "Red Tomb", in the vicinity of tomb N192.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 18th, 2004 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5152, 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, 7; Dobias-Lalou, 2013 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography , pp. 181-183. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2015 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2015, De la pierre à internet. Le travail de la mission archéologique française sur les inscriptions grecques de Cyrénaïque, in V. Michel, De Leptis Magna à Derna, de la Cyrénaïque à la Tripolitaine: travaux récents sur la Libye antique, Paris, 28-38 - see in bibliography , pp. 33-34.
Apparatus
1
Dobias-Lalou, 2013
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography
Ἀλκάνορος : 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
ΑΜΚΑΝΟΡΟΣ : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
Ἀλ̣κάνορος ||
Dobias-Lalou, 2013
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography
ἁ ὀπὰ ἰδία : 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
ΑΟΤΙΜΙΔΙΑ : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
2
Dobias-Lalou, 2013
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography
καὶ τάφ̣ο[ς καὶ] σορός : 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
ΚΑΙΤΑΤΟ[...] τ[.......] ος : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
καὶ τὰ [---]
French translation
Ceci est le compartiment personnel d'Alkanor, ainsi que sa tombe et son cercueil.
English translation
This is Alkanor's own recess, his burial place and his casket.
Italian translation
Questa è la nicchia personale di Alkanor, la sua tomba e la sua bara.
Arabic translation
هذا هو الركن أو التجويف الخاص بألكانور، مكان دفنه ونعشه.
Commentary
For this tomb (not seen by Cassels), see Thorn, 2007 Thorn, D., 2007, The ‘Red Tomb’ at Cyrene, Libyan Studies38, 87-92 - see in bibliography , p. 89, who described and named it ‘Red Tomb'.
The word ὀπά means 'insight, opening'. Besides this example, it is also used in four instances, out of which three clearly mention lintels of monumental doors (IGCyr020700, IGCyr022400, IGCyr017300, IGCyr096800).
Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.
