Support
Rock-cut tomb facade (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the rocky wall.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Possibly fourth century B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found by the Chieti mission before 2003 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Ain Hofra on the Eastern bank (their point GPS E728).
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Menozzi, 2006 Menozzi, O., 2006, Per una lettura della chora cirenea attraverso lo studio di santuari rupestri e de aree marginali della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 61-84 - see in bibliography , p. 68, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2007.562, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 56.2032, 1. Cf. Menozzi, 2015 Menozzi, O., 2015, Extramural rock-cut sanctuaries in the territoy of Cyrene, Libyan Studies, 46, 57-74 - see in bibliography , p. 70.
1 [Εὐ?]μηλί[δας?] : Menozzi, 2006
Menozzi, O., 2006, Per una lettura della chora cirenea attraverso lo studio di santuari rupestri e de aree marginali della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 61-84 - see in bibliography
Μηλιχ[ίω]
2
Menozzi, 2006
Menozzi, O., 2006, Per una lettura della chora cirenea attraverso lo studio di santuari rupestri e de aree marginali della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 61-84 - see in bibliography
ἱαρεύ[ς]
[Eu]mèli[das], prêtre.
[Eu]meli[das], priest.
[Eu]meli[das], sacerdote.
.[إف]ميلي[داس] الكاهن
The transcription and interpretation given by Menozzi, 2006 Menozzi, O., 2006, Per una lettura della chora cirenea attraverso lo studio di santuari rupestri e de aree marginali della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 61-84 - see in bibliography are puzzling in many ways: a priest devoted to Melichios as such is not plausible and his own name would be missing in the inscription. Furthermore there is no hint in the illustration of the chi mentioned in the diplomatic transcription.
Either we have one more mention of the divine epithet Μηλίχιος, which cannot be plausibly completed by the mention of a priest. A possibility for the second word would be ἱαρόν, which differs with the last letters transcribed at line 2.
On the other hand the segment ΜΗΛΙ at that place may belong to a personal name, such as Εὐμηλίδας. This reading is the more tantalizing that a priest of Apollo named Eumelidas is known from IGCyr020900. The name of Apollo is often omitted in mentions of the eponymous priest. As there are some tombs in the area, a funerary mention would be quite plausible.
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