Epitaph

IGCyr007400

Trismegistos ID: 738180

Source Description

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 : 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).

Bibliography

CIG 5157 b (part), from Pacho, 1827 , pl. LXVI.1, whence SGDI 4864; Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , XII.87, whence SECir , 199b. Cf. Cassels, 1955 , p. 34; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 223.

Text

Ἀράτας

Apparatus

French translation

(Sépulture) d'Arata.

English translation

(Burial place of) Arata.

Italian translation

(Sepoltura) di Arata.

Arabic translation

(مكان دفن) أراتا

Commentary

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 as from one and the same tomb. Oliverio' transcriptions probably did not mention CIG 5157 and Pugliese Carratelli at SECir 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 had mentioned for tomb S 74 'Inscriptions inside'. His copy of the inscriptions were eventually made available by Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , 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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