Support
White marble base which supported a stele surmounted by a capital; base with eggs and darts mouldings above and below (complete 0.925; 0.535;0.63).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.767; 0.18;).
Letters
0.042-0.052; omicron smaller than omega, beta with loops slightly separated on the hasta, shorter central bar of epsilon, moderately slanting sigma.
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 , p. 63, n. 2, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2167; 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.).
Aristotélès fils de Nebrikhos.
Aristoteles son of Nebrichos.
Aristoteles figlio di Nebrichos.
Aristoteles might be the brother of Mnasistrata (IGCyr084600) and have died some years later than she did, to judge from the lettering ( 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).
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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