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 pleiades; HGL : 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.
Bacchielli, 1996 Bacchielli, L., 1996, La tomba di Thanathos nella necropoli Sud di Cirene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt), n.s. 2, 27-30 - see in bibliography , p. 28, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2210, B. Cf. Gasperini, 1998 Gasperini, L., 1998, Novità epigrafiche dal settore meridionale della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Catani, S.M. Marengo (eds.), La Cirenaica in età antica: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Macerata, 18-20 Maggio 1995, Ichnia1, Pisa-Roma, 273-279 [= , 407-418] - see in bibliography , pp. 277-279 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 416-418).
Thanatos (i.e. la Mort).
Thanatos (i.e. Death).
Thanatos (i.e. la Morte).
The inscription mentions the genie of death, which was probably the figure painted next to it.
For the tomb, see Thorn, 2006 Thorn, J.C., 2006, Drawings by Beechey in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 285-304 - see in bibliography , p. 342 and fig. 217.
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