Epitaph

IGCyr009700

Trismegistos ID: 105900

Source Description

Support

Lid of rock-cut sarcophagus, limestone (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the sloping side of the lid, in a shallow recess: 1; 0.56; (measured from the photograph).

Letters

0.08, very regularly cut; still slightly slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

First seen by H.F. De Cou in 1911 at Cyrene : North Necropolis , on terrace above and west of tomb N 22.

Later recorded Location

Seen by J. Cassels in 1954.

Last recorded Location

Seen before 2006 by the Thorns in situ.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 23, fig. 16, whence Sammelbuch 5878; DGE 231,3; Cassels, 1955 , p. 10; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 31.

Text

Νεῦσσις

Apparatus

1 Νεῦσσις : Robinson, 1913  Νευσσίς

French translation

Neussis.

English translation

Neussis.

Italian translation

Neussis.

Arabic translation

نيوسيس.

Commentary

The name should be read as a masculine with recessive accent Νεῦσσις. Contra Robinson (with explanation in the addenda and corrigenda) and Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 126, who thought it to be a women's name. Whereas masculine names are commonly built with a suffix -ι- in Cyrenaica, feminine names in -ίδ- are quite unknown before the end of the Hellenistic period. And this is the more so that Νεῦσσος is usual in the region.

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