Epitaph

IGCyr123200

Trismegistos ID: 738781

Source Description

Support

Rock-cut tomb, of which the chamber has six double-level loculi on either side of a central N-S corridor (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed above right (i.e. west) loculus 3, below a deep niche.

Letters

Height unknown and shape unknown; well cut, within guide-lines.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Presumably Hellenistic. (lettering)

Findspot

Seen and copied by J. Thorn in 2002 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S1.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor CDL.

Bibliography

Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 205.

Text

Μνασίας Ἀρίστιος

Apparatus

French translation

Mnasias fils d'Aristis.

English translation

Mnasias son of Aristis.

Italian translation

Mnasias figlio di Aristis.

Commentary

We know this inscription only from a diplomatic transcription by J. Thorn, who gives information about its placement.

A man named Aristis son of Mnasias is mentioned in the list of subscriptors about 280 B.C. (IGCyr065210, a.168). He might be related to the man mentioned here, but more precision about the lettering would be necesseray to allow a more decisive hypothesis.

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