Epitaph

IGCyr118800

Trismegistos ID: 738738

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

Marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at left front (0.95; 0.365;0.58).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.815; 0.19;0.545).

Letters

0.04; no serifs; epsilon with central shorter bar, horse-shoe shaped omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Seen by J. Cassels in 1955 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S52 Cassels.

Later recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : in front of the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen and photographed by the Chieti Mission before 2013 at the same place.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Cassels, 1955 , p.34 (mention of an inscribed base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p.218 (diplomatic transcription from Cassels' notebook).

Text

[Π]έλεια Μελανίππω

Apparatus

1 [Π]έλεια : Thorn-Thorn, 2009  (vac. 1)Ε̣Λ̣ΕΙΑ

French translation

Peleia fille de Mélanippos.

English translation

Peleia daughter of Melanippos.

Italian translation

Peleia figlia di Melanippos.

Arabic translation

بيليا ابنة ميلانيبوس

Commentary

The feminine name Πέλεια was already known at Cyrene (IRCyr C.91, l. 29 and IRCyr C.130, l. 13) and Taucheira (IRCyr T.627, l. 2) at later dates; no other name would match the gap.

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