Epitaph
IGCyr118700
Trismegistos ID: 738735
Source Description
Support
Limestone sarcophagus with double slope lid surmounted by a platform for a half-statue (wide 0.95; long 2.26).
Layout
Inscribed on the Southern slope of the lid below the platform; awkward layout of the line that begins too high, lowers along the platform and raises again after it (long 1.42).
Letters
Height unknown; no characteristic letter.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably third or second century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found by Mrs Rowe in 1957 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , courtyard 81, sarcophagus AI.
Last recorded Location
Seen by the Thorns before 2005 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
Bibliography
Rowe, 1959 Rowe, A., 1959, in A. Rowe, J.F. Healy (eds.), Cyrenaican Expeditions of the University of Manchester 1955, 1956, 1957; comprising an account of the excavated areas of the cemeteries at Cyrene and of objects found in 1952 by Alan Rowe, M.A. together with descriptions of the coins by John F. Healy, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.N.S., Manchester, 1-29 - see in bibliography , p. 9 and fig. XIV (localisation); 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.49. Cf. Belzic, 2015 Belzic, M., 2015, Les "divinités funéraires" de Cyrénaïque, 1-2, Master dissertation, École pratique des Hautes Études, 4e section, Paris - see in bibliography , vol. 2, pl. XXIb (Thorn's unpublished drawing).
Apparatus
1 Rowe, 1959 Rowe, A., 1959, in A. Rowe, J.F. Healy (eds.), Cyrenaican Expeditions of the University of Manchester 1955, 1956, 1957; comprising an account of the excavated areas of the cemeteries at Cyrene and of objects found in 1952 by Alan Rowe, M.A. together with descriptions of the coins by John F. Healy, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.N.S., Manchester, 1-29 - see in bibliography ΑΙΔΩΧΟΣ : Belzic, 2015 Belzic, M., 2015, Les "divinités funéraires" de Cyrénaïque, 1-2, Master dissertation, École pratique des Hautes Études, 4e section, Paris - see in bibliography ΑΙΔΩΧΟΝ (from Thorn's drawing)
French translation
Aidôkhos.
English translation
Aidochos.
Italian translation
Aidochos.
Arabic translation
أيدوخوس
Commentary
Rowe's simple mention in capitals was duly registered in Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , p. 18, obviously upon J.M. Reynolds' advice.
The name Αἰδῶχος, although rare, is known in its koine form Αἰδοῦχος for a Cnidian at Miletus in the third century B.C.
Names on sarcophagi and other funerary inscriptions are always at the nominative case and so is it in Rowe's transcription. The final nu in Thorn's drawing should be either a slip of the pen or the result of the stone becoming illegible.
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