Support
Rock-cut tomb with five loculi and a plain facade (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in two sections on the facade just above the loculi (on name for each loculus).
Letters
Height unknown, deeply and carefully cut; alpha with low bar, slanting mu and sigma, smaller circular letters, rho with smaller loop in B than in A; the lettering is very similar in both sections, however the guideline for B is no extension of that for A, but is placed slightly higher up.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably second half of fourth century BC. (context, lettering)
Findspot
First seen and copied by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : West Necropolis , tomb W128.
Later recorded Location
Seen before 2001 by J. Thorn in situ.
Later recorded Location
Seen in 2002 by G. D'Addazio in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen and photographed in 2010 by E. Rosamilia in situ, whence Dobias-Lalou's present edition.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mentions (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. 305 (Cassels' copy and Reynolds' test translation). Cf. D'Addazio, 2008 D'Addazio, G., 2008, Tradizione onomastiche a Cirene, in O. Menozzi, M.L. Di Marzio, D. Fossataro (eds.), IX Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Chieti (Italy), 24-26 febr. 2005 (SOMA2005), BAR International Series1739, 177-185 - see in bibliography , pp. 180-181 (comments on the names).
b.1 D'Addazio, 2008 D'Addazio, G., 2008, Tradizione onomastiche a Cirene, in O. Menozzi, M.L. Di Marzio, D. Fossataro (eds.), IX Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Chieti (Italy), 24-26 febr. 2005 (SOMA2005), BAR International Series1739, 177-185 - see in bibliography Ἐπικρίτας : 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 Ἐπικρ[άτης] (Cassels' diplomatic transcription)
a) (Tombe) de Kallippos et Myrô.
b) (Tombe)d'Epikrita.
a) (Tomb) of Kallippos and Myro.
b) (Tomb)of Epikrita.
a) (Tomba) di Kallippos e Myrò.
b) (Tomba)di Epikrita.
Cassels' unpublished reading was not complete and lacked information about the layout of both sections. J.M. Reynolds' tentative translation communicated to the Thorns is therefore dubitative.
D'Addazio suggested to read section B before section A, which would give both father's and mother's names. This seems impossible in terms of nomenclature, although it is quite possible that the deceased person mentioned at line 2 is a child of the pair mentioned at line 1.
The woman's name Epikrita is already attested on a much later mosaic at Cyrene and corresponds to the masculine Epikritos, rare, but attested elsewhere.
The form Μυρός, dialectal genitive of the woman's name Μυρώι, brings a good support to the hitherto isolated genitive λεχός at IGCyr016700, l. 109.
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