Epitaph
IGCyr122600
Trismegistos ID: 738775
Source Description
Support
Rock-cut tomb with at least 7 loculi (or possibly two adjacent tombs), (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed above the door of loculus 6 from the left, on the lintel, beginning to the left of the door opening.
Letters
Height unknown; slanting sigma, horseshoe shaped omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Presumably third of first half of second century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Copied and photographed by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , tomb N295.
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.C. Thorn before 2001 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from mention and photograph (CDL).
Bibliography
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. 103. Cf. Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 29.
Apparatus
French translation
(Tombe) de Kléôn.
English translation
(Tomb) of Kleon.
Italian translation
(Tomba) di Kleon.
Commentary
Cassels in his 1955 publication only mentioned the presence of inscriptions. From his archive, the Thorns were able to recover a copy and a large scale photograph, which does not help much. They also were able to check the layout and reading of this inscription and of two others from the same tomb (see IGCyr122500 and IGCyr122700).
Names of deceased persons are usually inscribed at the nominative on the tombs. In this case it is possible that Kleon is a father's name whereas the own name of the dead would be lost (like at IGCyr122500). However Thorn does not mention any loss, so we follow his diplomatic transcription. IGCyr122700 from the same tomb seems to have also only a genitive.
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