Epitaph

IGCyr079000

Trismegistos ID: 738375

Source Description

Support

Tomb-chamber, preceded by a forecourt; three inscriptions inside the chamber above the funerary compartments: this one, IGCyr078800 and IGCyr078900; no dimensions.

Layout

Inscribed above the last loculus on the right.

Letters

0.1-0.12.

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 , not identifiable 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.c (no image), whence SEG , 37.1680, c.

Text

Κράτητος

Apparatus

French translation

(Tombe) de Kratès.

English translation

(Tomb) of Krates.

Italian translation

(Tomba) di Krates.

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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