Support
Limestone panel closing a rock-cut tomb (0.51; 1.5;0.22).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the outer face at ca. 0.35 from top, within guide-lines.
Letters
Line 1 0.029 to 0.039, line 2 0.03; not very carefully cut letters with small serifs in form of dots, alpha with dropped bar, kappa with short oblique bars, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of second or beginning of first century B.C.
Findspot
Found by F. Abd el-Karim in 2006 near Ptolemais pleiades; HGL : in the South-West Necropolis , not far from Tokra Gate .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Łajtar-Abd el-Karim, 2008 Łajtar, A., Abd el-Karim, F., 2008, A Grave Inscription from Ptolemais in Cyrenaica with the Libyan name Aialan and the term Akinetos for 'tomb', Palamedes3, 215-220 - see in bibliography and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2012.504, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 58.1841. Cf. 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 , pp. 186-187; Dobias-Lalou, 2013-2014 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013-2014, Une décennie de travaux épigraphiques en Cyrénaïque: bilan 2005-2014 et projets, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 7, 185-193 - see in bibliography , p. 187.
(Tombe) d'Aialan; à ne pas déplacer.
(Tomb) of Aialan; not to be moved.
(Tomba) di Aialan; non spostare.
This rare use of the adjective ἀκίνητος is one of the many formulas preventing the tomb to be opened, robbed or re-used. A similar mention is to be found at Amphissa (see SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 56.566).
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