EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0864002
Trismegistos ID:
738415
Source description
Support: Limestone rectangular panel on the wall facing the entrance, in a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).
Layout: Inscribed in four lines.
Letters: Height not registered and somewhat irregular; circular letters slightly smaller, symmetrical pi, non-slanting sigma; the second theta has a small and vertical central bar; one out of three alphas has a dropped bar on Smith and Porcher's copy (contra Pacho's).
Date: Late second century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Copied by A. Cervelli in 1811-1812 'on the road from Safsaf to Gren (Cyrene)', i.e. at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis. Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 in situ.Copied by R.M. Smith and E.A. Porcher in 1861 in situ.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seen by J.M. Reynolds in the sixties of the twentieth century in situ, in the South Necropolis. Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
CIG 5154 (Franz), from Pacho 1827, pl. 65, 9; Smith – Porcher 1864, n. 27; Mohamed – Reynolds 1997, pp. 34-35 n. 4 C, whence SEG, 47.2180, C; IGCyr 086400 ➚. Cf.Cervelli 1825, p. 26 and pl. I.5 (erroneously numbered 3); Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 267; Dobias-Lalou 2013, p. 185, whence SEG, 64.2015; Rosamilia 2023, p. 108.
Text
French translation
Aristoteles fils de Sosis, prêtre d'Apollon. N'enterrer personne d'autre.
English translation
Aristoteles son of Sosis, priest of Apollo. Don't bury anyone else here.
Commentary
Before being copied by Pacho and from him edited in CIG 5154, the inscription had been copied by Cervelli, who described the tomb in a few lines.
From the same tomb, not precisely identified in the South Necropolis, comes IGCyr0081002 and might also come IGCyr0862002 and IGCyr0865002.
An Aristoteles son of Sosis is mentioned among the contributors of IGCyr0652002, about 280 BC. The lettering here indicates a date about the end of the second century. So a family link is possible, but cannot be fixed more precisely. Rosamilia 2023 considers that this Aristoteles would plausibly be the great-great-grandson of the contributor and dates his priesthood between 140 and 100 BC.
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Images
Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr086400 Epitaph
Maps
Cyrene general plan
