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

Ptolemais .

Date

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

Findspot

Found in 1968 at Ptolemais : 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westwards from the so called Quarry Gate , North of the Amphitheatre , that is in a North-West necropolis which was superseded by the modern village.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 , p. 260, whence SEG , 37.1714.

Text

Ἁγεμόνα Ἀμμωνίου (vac. 1) ἱέρεια, χαῖρε.

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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