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

Layout: Inscribed above the entrance to a loculus.

Letters: Height unknown.

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 called '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

Aphénô fille d'[Ar?]immas.

English translation

Apheno daughter of [Ar?]immas.

Italian translation

Aphenò figlia di [Ar?]immas.

Commentary

Σῖμος and related names are unknown in Cyrenaica; this rules out Blass' proposal for line 2. Applebaum's idea that Immi might be a Jewish name is not sustainable inside a typically Greek group. Reynolds mentions a small horizontal mark at the right of the vertical stroke of the last letter, previously read as iota, so that it might be an alpha, allowing to restore the typically Cyrenaican name Arimmas.

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