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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, IGCyr078400, IGCyr078500 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
Height unknown.
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.5 and copy of [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli, whence CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5163 and 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.6, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1679, 6 Cf. Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in bibliography , pp. 34-35.
2 [Ἀρ?]ίμμα̣ : Applebaum, 1962 Applebaum, S., 1962, Cyrenensia Iudaica, Journal of Jewish Studies (JJS)13, 31-43 - see in 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 ΙΜΜΙ : SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography [Σ]ιμμί[ας] (Blass' suggestion) : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Ἰμμ[---] (from Negri's copy ΙΜΜΙ)
Aphénô fille d'[Ar?]immas.
Apheno daughter of [Ar?]immas.
Aphenò figlia di [Ar?]immas.
Σῖμος and related names are unknown in Cyrenaica; this rules out Blass' proposal for line 2. Applebaum's idea that Immi might be a Jewish name is not sustainable inside a typically Greek group. Reynolds mentions a small horizontal mark at the right of the vertical stroke of the last letter, previously read as iota, so that it might be an alpha, allowing to restore the typically Cyrenaican name Arimmas.
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