Epitaph
IGCyr080000
Trismegistos ID: 738378
Source Description
Support
Sandstone stele with top curving inwards from either side towards a central feature now lost (0.434; 0.59;0.1).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.02-0.025.
Place of Origin
Date
End of second or beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1968 at Ptolemais pleiades; HGL : road westwards from the so called Quarry Gate , North of the Amphitheatre , that is in a North-West necropolis which was superseded by the modern village.
Present Location
Said to be lost in the 1970s.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Bazama-Reynolds, 1978-1979 Bazama, A., Reynolds, J., 1978-1979, Some new inscriptions from the cemeteries of ancient Ptolemais, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)15-16 , 255-261 - see in bibliography , p. 260, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1714.
Apparatus
French translation
Prêtresse Hagémona fille d'Ammonios, adieu!
English translation
Priestess Hagemona daughter of Ammonios, farewell!
Italian translation
Sacerdotessa Hagemona figlia di Ammonios, addio!
Commentary
At Ptolemais, the use of koine is usual since the foundation, so that the genitive of the father's name has the expected form. However, the woman's name has the dialectal ending, which was more easily preserved, because in koine feminines in -a do also exist.
The formula with χαῖρε is never found in Cyrenaica in the Greek period. Ptolemais was more receptive to foreign influences. Besides, this inscription is probably one of the latest in the present collection.
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