EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0084002
Trismegistos ID:
738190
Source description
Support: Marble base with back left rough, not otherwise described (dimensions unknown, but see commentary).
Layout: Inscribed on front face.
Letters: Height unknown.
Date: Second or first centuries BC (lettering).
Findspot: First copy, probably made by Padre Pacifico in 1827 at Cyrene ➚, passed on to Franz by P. Negri, Sardinian consul in Tripoli .
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seen by J. Cassels in 1954 at South Necropolis, tomb S 4. Seen by A. Laronde in 1975 (for epigraphy). Seen by L. Cherstich before 2003 (for the whole tomb).
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
Bibliography
CIG 5171 (Franz), from a copy of [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli; Beschi 1970, p. 203 footnote 1; Masson 1975, p. 223; IGCyr 008400 ➚. Cf. Thorn 2005, p. 206; Cherstich 2006, pp. 110-111; Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 206; Belzic 2022, catalogue B.21.
Text
Apparatus
1: Ἀκεσὼι Thorn – Thorn 2009 from Cassels' Grey Book: ΑΚΕΩΙ CIG; Ἀκεσ[---] Beschi 1970; Ἀκεσὼ̣ι Masson 1975; Ἀκεσώρ Thorn 2005 from Cassels' unpublished first copy
2: Νικοδ̣ά̣μ̣ω Masson 1975, Thorn – Thorn 2009 the Thorn's mention taken from Cassels' archive: Νικο[λά]ω CIG Franz from [Negri]'s copy ΝΙΚΟΔΔΗΩ; Νικοσ[---] Beschi 1970
French translation
Akesô fille de Nikodamos.
English translation
Akeso daughter of Nikodamos.
Italian translation
Akesò figlia di Nikodamos.
Arabic translation
أكيسو ابنة نيكوداموس
Commentary
Masson's reading was the nearest to Negri's copy; the last letter seen by Beschi at line 2 might be the right part of delta, which he took for the lower part of a sigma.
In an unpublished letter to Masson (1974-08-18), Beschi said that he had noted for this base «same dimensions and ornaments as (IGCyr0079002)».
Laronde (in his hitherto unpublished Prosopographia), who had seen the stone, could not read more than ΝΙΚΟ because other blocks had fallen upon it.
From Cassels' notebook, published by Thorn, it appears that the former had eventually identified the base and insisted that he had the exact reading.
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Maps
Cyrene general plan
