Support
Limestone rectangular panel on the wall facing the entrance, in a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in four lines.
Letters
Height not registered and somewhat irregular; circular letters slightly smaller, symmetrical pi, non-slanting sigma; the second theta has a small and vertical central bar; one out of three alphas has a dropped bar on Smith and Porcher's copy ( contra Pacho's).
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Late second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by A. Cervelli in 1811-1812 'on the road from Safsaf to Gren (Cyrene)', i.e. at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis .
Findspot
Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 in situ.
Findspot
Copied by R.M. Smith and E.A. Porcher in 1861 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds in the sixties of twentieth century in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5154 (Franz), from Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. 65, 9; Smith-Porcher, 1864 Smith, R.M., Porcher, E.A., 1864, History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene, made during an expedition to the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, under the auspices of Her Majesty's government, London - see in bibliography , n. 27; Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1997, New funerary incriptions from Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 31-45 - see in bibliography , pp. 34-35 n. 4 C, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2180, C. Cf. Cervelli, 1825 Cervelli, A., 1825, Relations inédites de la Cyrénaique: 1: Extrait du Journal d'une expédition faite en 1811 et 1812, de Tripoli à Derne, par les déserts, Recueil De Voyages Et De MémoiresSociété de géographie2, 15-31 - see in bibliography , p. 26 and pl. I.5 (erroneously numbered 3); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 267; Dobias-Lalou, 2013 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography , p. 185.
Aristoteles fils de Sosis, prêtre d'Apollon. N'enterrer personne d'autre.
Aristoteles son of Sosis, priest of Apollo. Don't bury anyone else here.
Before being copied by Pacho and from him edited in CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5154, the inscription had been copied by Cervelli, who described the tomb in a few lines.
From the same tomb, not precisely identified in the South Necropolis, comes IGCyr008100 and might also come IGCyr086200 and IGCyr086500.
An Aristoteles son of Sosis is mentioned among the contributors of IGCyr065200, about 280 B.C. The lettering here indicates a date about the end of the second century. So a family link is possible, but cannot be fixed more precisely.
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