Support: Inside a rock-cut tomb-chamber with IGCyr078100² to IGCyr078400² and IGCyr078500² to IGCyr078700²; dimensions not registered.

Layout: Inscribed above the entrance to a loculus.

Letters: 0.1-0.15; S. Farag and J.M. Reynolds mention lunate sigma, but the photograph clearly shows a classical slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied in 1825 by J.-R. Pacho at Cyrene ➚.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen and copied by S. Applebaum between 1943 and 1945. The tomb was rediscovered in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir, West Necropolis, thus said 'Tomb Farag'. Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Apparatus

French translation

Themisô. Étéarkhos.

English translation

Themiso. Etearchos.

Italian translation

Themisò. Etearchos.

Commentary

ΘΕΜΙΣΩ may be read either as a complete feminine name Θεμισώ, as in the text and translations above, or as an uncomplete masculine Θεμίσω(ν) (Themison), the latter being plausible, as the name at line 2 is itself abbreviated, like both names in IGCyr078500².

The second name is probably the common Ἐτέαρχος at the nominative, like in all other occurrences in this tomb. And, generally speaking, the genitive is rare in such mentions cut above the entrances to loculi.

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