Epitaphs
IGCyr056400
Trismegistos ID: 6065
Source Description
Support
Above the utmost right door of a rock-cut tomb with three loculi (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the wall.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 300 B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found by J. Cassels in 1953 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , tomb N 197.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 20, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 16.869a; Rowe, 1959 Rowe, A., 1959, in A. Rowe, J.F. Healy (eds.), Cyrenaican Expeditions of the University of Manchester 1955, 1956, 1957; comprising an account of the excavated areas of the cemeteries at Cyrene and of objects found in 1952 by Alan Rowe, M.A. together with descriptions of the coins by John F. Healy, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.N.S., Manchester, 1-29 - see in bibliography , p. 6 and pl. VI-VII; Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 123, 517.
Apparatus
2 Δρακόντος : Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography ΔΡΑΚΩΝΤΟΣ
French translation
Drakôn fils de Poseidippos. Hagemona fille de Drakôn.
English translation
Drakon son of Poseidippos. Hagemona daughter of Drakon.
Italian translation
Drakon figlio di Poseidippos. Hagemona figlia di Drakon.
Commentary
As Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography shows, tomb N 197 Cassels is called erroneously N 198 by Rowe, 1959 Rowe, A., 1959, in A. Rowe, J.F. Healy (eds.), Cyrenaican Expeditions of the University of Manchester 1955, 1956, 1957; comprising an account of the excavated areas of the cemeteries at Cyrene and of objects found in 1952 by Alan Rowe, M.A. together with descriptions of the coins by John F. Healy, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.N.S., Manchester, 1-29 - see in bibliography , who had partly excavated it, without mentioning the inscriptions.
The date is inferred from Rowe's finds. Cassels' diplomatic transcription corresponds to such a date, whereas another name, engraved above the central door, has cursive omegas and should be of Roman date (whence IRCyr C.578).
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