Support
Rock-cut tomb with at least one loculus (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the architrave of the loculus, just under the lower moulding of the frieze.
Letters
0.06 to 0.062; deeply and carefully cut, nu with shorter righthand stroke, significantly slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Paci in 1993 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : West Necropolis (see commentary).
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Paci, 2003 Paci, G., 2003, Iscrizioni dalla necropoli occidentale di Cirene, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 173-182 - see in bibliography , pp. 180-181, n. 4 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2053, 4.
[Un tel] fils d'Eugénès.
[So-and-so] son of Eugenes.
[Il tale] figlio di Eugenes.
Paci thought that the tomb might be W25 Cassels. However, his description of the place, a small valley on the left side of Wadi Bil Ghadir, does not correspond to such a number in Cassels' map. The side valley should be Wadi Haleg Stawat, where there is a series of tombs, numbered W62 to W97, amongst which this inscription might be hosted.
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