Epitaph
IGCyr122800
Trismegistos ID: 738777
Source Description
Support
Rock-cut sarcophagus, (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the vertical side of the lid.
Letters
Height unknown and shape of letters unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps Hellenistic (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by J. Thorn in 2002 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , near tomb N362 Cassels, at the end of a terrace of sarcophagi called Terrace 1, in front of a tomb with four loculi.
Present Location
Never seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mention (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. 118 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
Polyaratos.
English translation
Polyaratos.
Italian translation
Polyaratos.
Commentary
The Thorns only give a description of the place and a diplomatic transcription of the preserved letters, with a suggestion about the date.
Names cut on sarcophagi are either at the nominative case, as a caption, or at the genitive, as owner's marks. So we might also have here a genitive, which would not be dialectal, ending in -ου.
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