Epitaph
IGCyr078000
Trismegistos ID: 738365
Source Description
Support
Funerary complex constituted by two tomb-chambers, each with a forecourt on a rock-cut terrace, showing various inscriptions; this one appears on the face of a marble stele lying in the N. forecourt (0.44; 1.38;0.31); IGCyr077900 on the S. wall of the S. forecourt; IGCyr078100, IGCyr078200, IGCyr078300, IGCyr078400, IGCyr078500, IGCyr078600 and IGCyr078700 appear within the N. tomb-chamber, cut above the entrance to the loculi.
Layout
Inscribed.
Letters
0.03; dotted theta, slanting sigma (Chamoux).
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Seen in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : funerary complex high on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir , West Necropolis , tomb W107 Cassels.
Later recorded Location
Seen and copied by Fr. Chamoux in 1947, re-used in a wall before a tomb, presumably the same one (unpublished notebook, p. 103).
Last recorded Location
Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Farag-Reynolds, 1978-1979 Farag, S., Reynolds J., 1978-1979, Inscriptions from two Hellenistic tombs in Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)15-16, 231-237 - see in bibliography , p. 232, n. 1.b, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1678.
Apparatus
French translation
Hagèsarkhos fils de Thémisôn.
English translation
Hagesarchos son of Themison.
Italian translation
Hagesarchos figlio di Themison.
Commentary
Possibly the same man as in IGCyr077900.
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