Epitaph

IGCyr010500

Trismegistos ID: 105928

Source Description

Support

Marble base with double mouldings (0.56; 0.32;0.35).

Layout

Inscribed on front between mouldings (height 0.21).

Letters

0.04; slightly apicated.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Copied by Norton on January 24th, 1911 probably at Mgarnes (see commentary), in the same tomb as IGCyr010440.

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 63, without illustration, whence Sammelbuch 5905.

Text

Ἀριστόκλεια Μενεστράτω

Apparatus

French translation

Aristokleia fille de Menestratos.

English translation

Aristokleia daughter of Menestratos.

Italian translation

Aristokleia figlia di Menestratos.

Commentary

From Norton's description («In tomb on right of road to Turt, about two miles and a half from Cyrene»), one may guess that the findspot is Mgarnes, on the road from Shahat to Tert. The latter is itself quite near Qabu Yunis, on the modern highroad from Shahat to Darnah.

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