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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0073002
Trismegistos ID: 738179

Source description

Support: First loculus on the right, in a rock-cut tomb (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the lintel above the loculus.

Letters: 0.017.

Date: Fourth or third century BC (lettering).

Findspot:

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio between 1925 and 1938 at Cyrene: South Necropolis. Seen in 1954 by J. Cassels, who numbered the tomb as S 74. Not found by IGCyr team.

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

Bibliography

CIG 5157 a (part), from Pacho 1827, pl. LXVI.1; SGDI 4864; Oliverio , XII.87, whence SECir, 199e; IGCyr 007300 . Cf. Cassels 1955, p. 34 Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 223.

Text

Interpretive

Ἄριστις Ο[---]

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΙΣΟ[---]

French translation

Aristis fils d'O[---].

English translation

Aristis son of O[---].

Italian translation

Aristis figlio di O[---].

Arabic translation

أريستيس بن أو[...؟ ..].

Commentary

About the successive phases of the discovery and publication, see at IGCyr0074002.

After O, Oliverio's copy had "altre lettere non chiare". We choose to take this O as the first letter of the father's name. It might also stand for the article , but such a formulation is not usual in other funerary mentions inside Cyrenaican tombs.

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