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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, IGCyr078300, 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
0.1-0.15; S. Farag and J.M. Reynolds mention lunate sigma, but the photograph clearly shows a classical slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third century B.C. (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.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
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Transcription from previous 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.4, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1679, 4. Cf. Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography , pp. 34-35.
1 CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography Θεμίσω[ν]
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 Ἐτεάρχ(ω) (alternatively suggested) : Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography Θεμισω (sic)
Themisô. Étéarkhos.
Themiso. Etearchos.
Themisò. Etearchos.
Θεμισω may be read either as a complete feminine name Θεμισώ, as in the text and translations above, or as an uncomplete masculine Θεμίσω(ν) (Themison), the latter being plausible, as the name at line 2 is itself abbreviated, like both names in IGCyr078500.
The second name is probably the common Ἐτέαρχος at the nominative, like in all other occurrences in this tomb. And, generally speaking, the genitive is rare in such mentions cut above the entrances to loculi.
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