Support
White marble base which supported a stele surmounted by a capital; base with eggs and darts mouldings above and below (complete 1.05; 0.558;0.72).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.87; 0.191;) in two lines beginning near the left edge.
Letters
0.045-0.06; omicron is smaller at l. 1 than at l. 2; slanting sigma; epsilon with shorter central bar; 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 , p. 64, n. 3 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2168; 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.).
Nebrikhos fils d'Aristotélès.
Nebrichos son of Aristoteles.
Nebrichos figlio di Aristoteles.
Gasperini suggested that this man was the father of Mnasistrata (IGCyr084600) and of Aristoteles son of Nebrichos (IGCyr084700). For the latter relation, alternate name and father's name inside the same tomb is a very strong argument and the lettering of the present inscription, which seems somewhat older, induces to place both men in the above said chronology.
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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