Epitaph
IGCyr009800
Trismegistos ID: 105901
Source Description
Support
Limestone rock-cut sarcophagus (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front side of the base of the sarcophagus.
Letters
0.13.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on March 29th, 1911 by H.F. De Cou, Norton expedition, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , in a group of sarcophagi, West of the stairs leading to tomb N17.
Last recorded Location
Seen by A. Santucci in 2010.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 25, with fig. 17, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5879. Cf. Uhlenbrock, 1998 Uhlenbrock, J.P., 1998, Cyrene papers: the first report. The Documents, Libyan Studies (LibStud)29, 97-114 - see in bibliography , p. 107, fig. 3 (photograph); Santucci-Uhlenbrock, 2013 Santucci, A., Uhlenbrock, J., 2013, Cyrene Papers: the Final Report. Richard Norton's Exploration of the Northern Necropolis of Cyrene (24 October 1910 - 4 May 1911): From Archives to Archaeological Contexts, Libyan Studies, 44, 9-55 - see in bibliography , pp. 13-14 and figg. 9-10.
Apparatus
French translation
(Tombe) de Philokrateia.
English translation
(Burial place of) Philokrateia.
Italian translation
(Tomba) di Philokrateia.
Arabic translation
مكان دفن فيلوكراتيا.
Commentary
The placement of this inscription is a rare one. Usually the names are inscribed on the sarcophagus lid.
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