Support
Rock-cut sarcophagus forming part of an enclosure of 4 x 2 sarcophagi (dimensions unrecorded).
Layout
Inscribed on the lid slope.
Letters
Height unknown; slightly dissymmetrical mu, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth or perhaps early third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found and photographed by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , above and behind tomb N200.
Last recorded Location
Seen in situ in 1998 by J. Thorn and J.M. Reynolds, who ascertained the place.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mentions (CDL).
Not really published before. Cf. Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , pl. III.b; 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. 79.
Aponikas.
Aponikas.
Aponikas.
This inscription was not mentioned by Cassels, who nevertheless gave a photograph on which it is clearly readable. The photograph was aimed at showing a typical enclosure of sarcophagi. Unfortunately, the caption to the plate refers to the South Necropolis. We now know its exact place thanks to the Thorns who give again Cassels' photograph and comment: «This isolated clutch of sarcophagi was found in 1998 to be buried in modern refuse and Cassels' claim that it was in the Southern Necropolis is incorrect». They add some comments from J.M. Reynolds about reading and dating.
J.M. Reynolds commented that she could not decide whether the third letter was an omega or an omicron. However the latter gives a well-formed name and should be preferred. She also wondered whether this was the nominative of a man's name of the genitive of a woman's name. However, only the masculine is morphologically acceptable and we have in fact another occurrence of this rare name at IGCyr000500, which might also have been written at Thera.
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