Support
On the front of two rock-cut tombs (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed above and between the entrances (ca. 3 m above ground).
Letters
Rather irregular letters (height unknown), without clear alignment; slanting mu and sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found in 1996 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL : Necropolis to the North of the city wall, in front of area L .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996 Buzaian, A.M., Lloyd, J.A., 1996, Early Urbanism in Cyrenaica: New Evidence from Euesperides (Benghazi), Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 129-152 - see in bibliography , p. 142 (dr.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2191.
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1 Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996 Buzaian, A.M., Lloyd, J.A., 1996, Early Urbanism in Cyrenaica: New Evidence from Euesperides (Benghazi), Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 129-152 - see in bibliography ΑΛΕΞΙ̣(- - -) (vac.), ΑΡΙΣΤ(- - -)
2 Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996 Buzaian, A.M., Lloyd, J.A., 1996, Early Urbanism in Cyrenaica: New Evidence from Euesperides (Benghazi), Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 129-152 - see in bibliography [Δ]Α̣ΜΟΣ(- - -)
a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).
a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).
a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).
It is not easy to interpret those inscriptions which are, as Buzaian and Lloyd say, roughly cut and heavily weathered. They speak of abbreviated personal names and seem to consider that those are three in number. However, to judge from the drawing, the bad alignment between ΑΛΕΞΙ and ΑΡΙΣΤ and the placement of ΑΜΟΣ are in favour of Pleket's assumption (SEG) that Ἀλεξίδαμος should be read on two lines at left, presumably corresponding to the left hand tomb (L83), whereas ΑΡΙΣΤ would be related to the right hand tomb (L87). However, the punctuation before the latter is rather puzzling: is it an awkawrdly placed separation between two areas or might they rather be some holes for fixation?
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