Epitaph

IGCyr078800

Trismegistos ID: 738373

Source Description

Support

Tomb-chamber cut into the local limestone, preceded by a forecourt; three inscriptions inside the chamber above the funerary compartments: this one, IGCyr078900, and IGCyr079000; no dimensions.

Layout

Inscribed above the first loculus to the left.

Letters

0.09-0.11.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of third or beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Seen in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene : funerary complex high on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir , West Necropolis ; no identification in Cassels' grid.

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 , p. 236 n. 2.a (no image), whence SEG , 37.1680, a.

Text

Ἀκεσοῦς

Apparatus

French translation

(Tombe) d'Akésô.

English translation

(Tombe) of Akeso.

Italian translation

(Tomba) di Akesò.

Commentary

The tomb, never described before the editio princeps , is mentioned by Thorn, 2005 , p. 347 as «Said Faraj Tomb B».

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