Support
White marble base which supported a half-statue found nearby; base with plain mouldings above and below; on its top a hole and a channel for pouring in lead (complete 0.926; 0.398;0.69).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.818; 0.257;).
Letters
L. 1 0.057, l. 20.052-0.063; sigma with neatly slanting strokes, slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1971 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S 388 Cassels.
Last recorded Location
Studied in 1972 by Gasperini in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Frigerio, 1997 Frigerio, C., 1997, Un esempio di architettura ellenistica funeraria a Cirene: la tomba S 388, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 51-73 - see in bibliography , pp. 62-63, n. 1, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2166; 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. 274-279 (ph.).
Mnasistrata fille de Nebrikhos.
Mnasistrata daughter of Nebrichos.
Mnasistrata figlia di Nebrichos.
Gasperini thought this epitaph to be the oldest one in the tomb. Mnasistrata's younger brother would be Aristoteles son of Nebrichos (IGCyr084700).
On the name Νέβριχος see Dobias-Lalou, 2010 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2010, Sur quelques noms nouveaux de Cyrénaïque, in R.W.V. Catling, F. Marchand (eds.), Onomatologos: studies in Greek personal names presented to Elaine Matthews, Oxford, 92-101 - see in bibliography , pp. 98-99.
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