Support
First loculus on the right, in a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the lintel above the loculus.
Letters
0.017.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth or third century B.C. (lettering)
Later recorded Location
Seen by G. Oliverio between 1925 and 1938 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1954 by J. Cassels, who numbered the tomb as S 74.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5157 a (part), 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. LXVI.1; SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864; Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XII.87, whence 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 , 199e. Cf. Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 34 Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 223.
Aristis fils d'O [---] .
Aristis son of O [---] .
Aristis figlio di O [---] .
أريستيس بن أو[...؟ ..].
About the successive phases of the discovery and publication, see at IGCyr007400.
After O, Oliverio's copy had "altre lettre non chiare". We choose to take this O as the first letter of the father's name. It might also stand for the article ὁ, but this formulation is not usued in other funerary mentions inside Cyrenaican tombs.
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