Support: Limestone sarcophagus (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the slope of the lid (wide 0.55).

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Probably second half of third or first half of second century BC (J.M. Reynolds) (lettering).

Findspot: Found by A. Rowe in 1954 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, North-West of tomb N81 Cassels, 11 m. S-W of sarcophagus N81-P.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1987 in situ, in the North Necropolis. Seen by J.C. Thorn before 2001 in situ. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous mentions (CDL).

French translation

Heraiis.

English translation

Heraiis.

Italian translation

Heraiis.

Commentary

Rowe mentioned the place of this unexcavated sarcophagus and the name on it. J.M. Reynolds provided the date for Fraser and Matthews and the Thorns confirmed the place of the name on the lid, so that they all presumably saw the inscription.

As mentioned at IGCyr009700², feminine names in -ίς are not common in Cyrenaica. However this one is supported by a variant Ἡραίς, name of a Cyrenaean woman in Egypt (see also at IGCyr009430²). Bechtel 1902, p. 55 explained this name, alongside with masculine Ἡραῖος as derived from the month-name Heraios, probably the month during which those people were born.

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