Epitaph

IGCyr122200

Trismegistos ID: 738771

Source Description

Support

Limestone sarcophagus (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the slope of the lid (wide 0.55).

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably second half of third or first half of second century B.C. (J.M. Reynolds) (lettering)

Findspot

Found by A. Rowe in 1954 at Cyrene : North Necropolis , North-West of tomb N81 Cassels, 11 m. S-W of sarcophagus N81-P.

Later recorded Location

Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1987 in situ.

Last recorded Location

Seen by J.C. Thorn before 2001 in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous mentions (CDL).

Bibliography

Rowe, 1959 , p. 9; Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 202; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 49.

Text

Ἡραιΐς

Apparatus

French translation

Heraiis.

English translation

Heraiis.

Italian translation

Heraiis.

Commentary

Rowe mentioned the place of this unexcavated sarcophagus and the name on it. J.M. Reynolds gave a date to Fraser and Matthews and the Thorns confirmed the place of the name on the lid, so that they all presumably saw the inscription.

As mentioned at IGCyr009700, feminine names in -ίς are not common in Cyrenaica. However this one is supported by a variant Ἡραίς, name of a Cyrenaean woman in Egypt (see also at IGCyr009430). Bechtel, 1902 , p. 55 explained this name, alongside with masculine Ἡραῖος as derived from the month-name Heraios, probably the month during which those people were born.

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