Support
Marble base with plain mouldings (1.18; 0.66; -).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between the mouldings.
Letters
0.01; careful letters with serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second or first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied by P. Negri, Sardinian consul in Tripoli, in 1827 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL .
Later recorded Location
Seen and copied by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , South Necropolis , tomb S 4 (unpublished information up to 2005).
Later recorded Location
Seen by A. Laronde in 1974 in situ (for epigraphy).
Last recorded Location
Seen by L. Cherstich before 2003 in situ (for the whole tomb).
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (ER).
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5164 (Franz), from copy of [Negri]; Letronne-Bourville, 1848 Letronne, A.-J., (from Bourville, J.V.), 1848, Sept inscriptions grecques trouvées à Cyrène, et deux autres de l'Arabie Petrée, trouvées à Constantine, Journal des Savants (JS)1848, 370-377 - see in bibliography , pp. 374-375; Vattier de Bourville, 1850 Vattier de Bourville, J., 1850, Rapport adressé à M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des cultes par m. J. Vattier de Bourville, chargé d'une mission dans la Cyrénaïque, Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires1, 580-586 - see in bibliography , p. 858; Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , pp. 202-203; Masson, 1975 Masson, O., 1975, Quelques épitaphes grecques, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH)99, 219-227 - see in bibliography , pp. 222-223. Cf. Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 206 (diplomatic copy from Cassels' notebook); Cherstich, 2006 Cherstich, L., 2006, S4: la tomba di Klearchos di Cirene, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 103-120 - see in bibliography , pp. 110-111, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 56.2032, 2; 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. 206 (more complete information from Cassels' notebook).
1 Masson, 1975 Masson, O., 1975, Quelques épitaphes grecques, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH)99, 219-227 - see in bibliography , Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography Μεγὼι (Thorn's reading from Cassels' archive) : Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography Μεγὼ : Letronne-Bourville, 1848 Letronne, A.-J., (from Bourville, J.V.), 1848, Sept inscriptions grecques trouvées à Cyrène, et deux autres de l'Arabie Petrée, trouvées à Constantine, Journal des Savants (JS)1848, 370-377 - see in bibliography Μι[κίπ]πωι (Letronne) : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Μ[νασ]ὼ̣ (Franz)
Megô fille d'Ekhetimos.
Mego daughter of Echetimos.
Megò figlia di Echetimos.
ميقو ابنة إخيتيو
Neither Vattier de Bourville's copy nor Letronne's publication were known to Franz for the publication of CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , vol. III. There is a mention in the addenda in CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , vol. IV.
This inscription was not identified by De Cou, although a photograph in the Norton archive, here published for the first time, shows it. So there is no mention of it amongst the corrections to CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography appended by Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography .
From Cassels' notebook, published by Thorn, it appears that the former had identified the base and insisted that he had the exact reading. Masson had independantly supposed the right reading.
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