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 pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S1.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor CDL.
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. 205.
Mnasias fils d'Aristis.
Mnasias son of Aristis.
Mnasias figlio di Aristis.
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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