Epitaph
IGCyr056200
Trismegistos ID: 105920
Source Description
Support
Limestone sarcophagus lid (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the rim.
Letters
0.09; roughly cut.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century or first half of third century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found on April 16th, 1911 by the Norton mission at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , near tomb N 22.
Last recorded Location
Seen by the Thorns before 2006 in situ.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , p. 179, n. 50, and Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 10, footnote 11, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 16.867; Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5898. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 31 (area of discovery).
Apparatus
1 Ἀριστοτέλευ̣ς : Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography Ἀριστοτέλευς : Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography Ἀριστοτέλεις (for Ἀριστοτέλης)
French translation
(Tombe) d'Aristotélès.
English translation
(Tomb) of Aristoteles.
Italian translation
(Tomba) di Aristoteles.
Commentary
We have here, as in other funerary mentions on sarcophagi, the name of the deceased at the genitive: he is considered the owner of the sarcopaghus.
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