Support
White marble fragmentary base, (0.35; 0.34;0.215); broken away at left, with a hole on top.
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.025.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth to third centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on April 2nd, 1911 by the Norton team at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , tomb N21.
Last recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1961.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 43, fig. 31, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5890; DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 231,7; SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 274 (Morelli), as unpublished; Masson, 1967 Masson, O., 1967, Remarques sur deux inscriptions de Cyrène et de Théra, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 41, 225-231 - see in bibliography , p. 225, footnote 3; Marengo, 1985 Marengo, S.M., 1985, Note di epigrafia cirenaica: edizioni ripetute, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)18, 145-162 - see in bibliography , pp. 161-162. 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 (area of discovery).
1-2 Masson, 1967 Masson, O., 1967, Remarques sur deux inscriptions de Cyrène et de Théra, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 41, 225-231 - see in bibliography , Marengo, 1985 Marengo, S.M., 1985, Note di epigrafia cirenaica: edizioni ripetute, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)18, 145-162 - see in bibliography [---] ταχα | [---] κλεῦς : Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography Ταχα|κλεῦς
[---] takha fille de [---] kles.
[---] tacha daughter of [---] kles.
[---] tacha figlia di [---] kles.
The tomb may be identified from Uhlenbrock's and Santucci's researches in Norton's archive.
Robinson's reading gave way to a ghost-name *Ταχακλῆς, admitted by Schwyzer (DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 231,7), Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , and also Bechtel, 1917 Bechtel, F., 1917, Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit, Halle - see in bibliography , p. 419, who however hold it for uncertain and guessed that there were two names.
Morelli, not aware of Robinson's publication, was right in his description.
Masson and Marengo linked both publications and the latter confirmed the reading.
For a name ending in -ταχα, the most plausible restoration could be a feminine counterpart to the Cretan name Βρόταχος, for which see Masson, 1990 Masson, O., 1990, Onomastica graeca selecta, I-II, Paris-Nanterre - see in bibliography , p. 452 (paper of 1984).
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