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IGCyr084210

Trismegistos ID: 738397

Source Description

Support

White plaster covering wall of a rock-cut tomb; near the faint traces of a figure (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Painted in black.

Letters

0.025 to 0.055, cursive capitals, alpha with projecting right hasta and bar missing, oblong theta with oblique bar.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found at the latest in 1972 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S 381A, in the small atrium leading to the funerary rooms.

Last recorded Location

Seen by L. Gasperini in 1972 in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Bacchielli, 1996 , p. 28, whence SEG , 46.2210, B. Cf. Gasperini, 1998 , pp. 277-279 (= Gasperini, 2008 , pp. 416-418).

Text

Θάνατο̣ς̣

Apparatus

French translation

Thanatos (i.e. la Mort).

English translation

Thanatos (i.e. Death).

Italian translation

Thanatos (i.e. la Morte).

Commentary

The inscription mentions the genie of death, which was probably the figure painted next to it.

For the tomb, see Thorn, 2006 , p. 342 and fig. 217.

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