IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Caption

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1349002
Trismegistos ID: 738896

Source description

Support: Right part of a marble panel with a relief of a woman covering her head with one end of her himation; to the left a small part of the right fore foot of a rearing horse is preserved and helps to show that it belonged to the type of the heroised riders (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the plinth.

Letters: Height unknown, with light serifs; sigma slightly slantering.

Date: Perhaps first half of second century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date and presumably long since at Taucheira: exact finspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Tocra Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen before 2007 by T. Mikocki and M. Mikocki-Muszyńska at Tūkrah: Tocra Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team; studied from photograph.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor CDL.

Bibliography

Muszyńska 2012, p. 311 (mention); Dobias-Lalou 2016, p.175; IGCyr 134900 . Cf. Mikocki – Mikocki-Muszyńska 2009 (relief).

Text

Interpretive

[---]ς ἥρως

Diplomatic

[---]ΣΗΡΩΣ

French translation

[---]s héros.

English translation

[---]s hero.

Italian translation

[---]s eroe.

Arabic translation

[---] بطل س

Commentary

In the first edition of the relief the inscription was not mentioned, while a brief account is given on A. Łajtar's advice.

For another similar relief with inscription of Hellenistic time, see IGCyr1186002. Other ones exist, dating from the Roman period.

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Maps

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