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Funerary complex constituted by two tomb-chambers, each with a forecourt on a rock-cut terrace, showing various inscriptions; this one appears within the N. tomb-chamber, cut above the entrance to a loculus together with IGCyr078200, IGCyr078300, IGCyr078400, IGCyr078500, IGCyr078600 and IGCyr078700; IGCyr077900 appears on the S. wall of the S. forecourt ; IGCyr078000 on the face of a marble stele lying in the N. forecourt; no dimensions.
Layout
Inscribed.
Letters
Line 1:0.1-0.11; line 2: 0.08-0.1: line 3: 0.13; at line 1, alpha with dropped bar and non-slanting sigma; at line 2, lunate epsilon and sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. and later (lettering)
Findspot
Later recorded Location
Seen and copied by S. Applebaum between 1943 and 1945.
Later recorded Location
The tomb was rediscovered in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir , West Necropolis , tomb W107 Cassels.
Last recorded Location
Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editors.
Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. LXVI.6 whence CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5163; SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864; 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.c.1, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1679, 1. Cf. Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography , pp. 34-35.
1 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 Μνασιστράτα : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Μνασιστρ̣ά̣τα : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ΜΝΑΣΙΣΙΛΤΑ
2 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 Δωριεύς : Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography [.] ωριευς : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Ἀσοριεύς : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ΑΣΟΡΙΕΥΣ
3 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 Φερώι : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography ΦΕΙΩ̣ : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ΦΕΙΩΙ : Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography (this line not mentioned)
Mnasistrata. Dôrieus. Phérô.
Mnasistrata. Dorieus. Phero.
Mnasistrata. Dorieus. Pherò.
Line 2 was added later on, as shown by the lettering.
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