Epitaph
IGCyr123100
Trismegistos ID: 738780
Source Description
Support
Rock-cut tomb with four loculi on main facade and three more on return wall of the forecourt (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in one line over loculus 1.
Letters
Dimensions unknown; no description of the lettering.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably pre-Roman (context, lettering)
Findspot
Seen and copied by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , tomb N384.
Last recorded Location
Seen by the Thorns in 2002 in situ (they describe two adjacent tombs and this is the right one).
Present Location
Not 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. 127 (diplomatic copy from Cassels' notebooks; no image)
Apparatus
French translation
(Tombe) d'Iasôn.
English translation
(Tomb) of Iason.
Italian translation
(Tomba) di Iason.
Commentary
We can only follow Cassels' transcription and the Thorns' indication about the place and probable date of this inscription.
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