Tomb protection
IGCyr010100
Trismegistos ID: 105910
Source Description
Support
Limestone stele closing a niche in a rock-cut tomb (0.54; 0.84;0.22).
Layout
Inscribed 0.175 from top.
Letters
0.07-0.11.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth to third centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1911, Norton expedition, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , Cassel's tomb N22 ('tomb 8' of the Norton expedition).
Present Location
Not found.
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. 41, fig. 30, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5887; DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 231,9. Cf. 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 , p. 12 (identification of the tomb); Dobias-Lalou, 2013 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography , p. 186.
Apparatus
French translation
Ne pas ouvrir.
English translation
Do not open.
Italian translation
Non aprire.
Arabic translation
لا تفتح (تحذير).
Commentary
The ending -εν for active infinitive is a regular feature in the local dialect.
This formula aims at protecting the recess in this chamber-tomb, which can be identified after 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 from the long delated publication of Norton's final report.
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