Epitaph
IGCyr117000
Trismegistos ID: 738718
Source Description
Support
Lid of a rock-cut sarcophagus, with an entablature for a half-statue (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed on the plinth of the lid, to be seen from the road.
Letters
0.12; widely open omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth or third century B.C. (lettering, context)
Findspot
Found in 2010 by Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , in front of tomb N176 Cassels.
Later recorded Location
Seen by J. Cassels in 1954 and approximately copied.
Last recorded Location
Seen and studied by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ in 2010.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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. 180-181, fig. 6. Cf. 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. 71.
Apparatus
1 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 Κ̣λ̣ειδώ : 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 +++ΛΕΙΔΟ+ (Cassels' Yellow Book) : 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 Εὐκλείδου (Cassels' Grey Book)
French translation
Kleidô.
English translation
Kleido.
Italian translation
Kleidò.
Commentary
This woman's name is new in Cyrenaica but built with the common suffix -ώ(ι) as a short form of compounds such as Κλείδαμος or Κλείδικος.
Cassels' copy published by the Thorns was not precise and C. Dobias-Lalou when publishing the inscription in 2013 had not yet brought together his sketch mentioned by the Thorns and her own copy.
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