Epitaphs

IGCyr078300

Trismegistos ID: 738368

Source Description

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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 the loculi together with IGCyr078100, IGCyr078200, 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 1:0.09-0.13; line 2: 0.11.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Copied in 1825 by J.-R. Pacho at Cyrene .

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.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Pacho, 1827 , pl. LXVI.6 whence CIG 5163; SGDI 4864; Farag-Reynolds, 1978-1979 , p. 232, n. 1.c.3, whence SEG , 37.1679, 3. Cf. Applebaum, 1962 ,pp. 34-35.

Text

Ἀφενώι Πέλεα

Apparatus

French translation

Aphénô. Péléa.

English translation

Apheno. Pelea.

Italian translation

Aphenò. Pelea.

Commentary

Two women were buried into this loculus.

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