Support
First loculus on the left, in a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the lintel above the loculus.
Letters
0.016.
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 (HB).
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5157 b (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, whence 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 , 199b. 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.
(Sépulture) d'Arata.
(Burial place of) Arata.
(Sepoltura) di Arata.
(مكان دفن) أراتا
Another Hellenistic mention (IGCyr007300) and other mentions of Roman date (IRCyr C.517) were given in an assemblage in Pacho'drawing, thus edited by Franz for the CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography as from one and the same tomb. Oliverio' transcriptions probably did not mention CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5157 and Pugliese Carratelli at 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 thus ignored the identification. However, we gained from that republication a precise layout of the various inscriptions inside the tomb and measures of the letters. In between, Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography had mentioned for tomb S 74 'Inscriptions inside'. His copy of the inscriptions were eventually made available by 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 , allowing to connect inscriptions and tomb.
From Pacho's copy it was already possible to divide the inscriptions between the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
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