EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0079002
Trismegistos ID:
738185
Source description
Support: Marble base with plain mouldings (w: 1.18 × h: 0.66).
Layout: Inscribed on front face between the mouldings.
Letters: 0.01; careful letters with serifs.
Date: Second or first century BC (lettering).
Findspot: First copy, probably py Padre Pacifico, transmitted by P. Negri, Sardinian consul in Tripoli, in 1827 at Cyrene ➚.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seen and copied by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene ➚, South Necropolis, tomb S 4 (unpublished information up to 2005). Seen by A. Laronde in 1974 in situ (for epigraphy). Seen by L. Cherstich before 2003 in situ (for the whole tomb).
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (ER).
Bibliography
CIG 5164 (Franz), from copy of [Negri]; Letronne – Bourville 1848, pp. 374-375; Vattier de Bourville 1850, p. 858; Beschi 1970, pp. 202-203; Masson 1975, pp. 222-223; IGCyr 007900 ➚. Cf. Thorn 2005, p. 206 (diplomatic copy from Cassels' notebook); Cherstich 2006, pp. 110-111, whence SEG, 56.2032, 2; Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 206 (more complete information from Cassels' notebook); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.20.
Text
Apparatus
1: Μεγὼι Masson 1975, Thorn 2005 Thorn's reading from Cassels' archive: Μεγὼ Beschi 1970; Μι[κίπ]πωι Letronne – Bourville 1848 Letronne; Μ[νασ]ὼ̣ CIG Franz
French translation
Megô fille d'Ekhetimos.
English translation
Mego daughter of Echetimos.
Italian translation
Megò figlia di Echetimos.
Arabic translation
ميقو ابنة إخيتيو
Commentary
Neither Vattier de Bourville's copy nor Letronne's publication were known to Franz for the publication of CIG, vol. III. There is a mention in the addenda in CIG, vol. IV.
This inscription was not identified by De Cou, although a photograph in the Norton archive, here published for the first time, shows it. So there is no mention of it amongst the corrections to CIG appended by Robinson 1913.
From Cassels' notebook, published by Thorn, it appears that the former had identified the base and insisted that he had the exact reading. Masson had independantly supposed the right reading.
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Images
Fig. 1. View of igcyr007900 Epitaph
Maps
Cyrene general plan
