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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0105002
Trismegistos ID: 105928

Source description

Support: Marble base with double mouldings (w: 0.56 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.35).

Layout: Inscribed on front between mouldings (height 0.21).

Letters: 0.04; slightly apicated.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by Norton on January 24th, 1911 in a tomb about 4 km East of Cyrene on right of the road to Tert (see commentary) with IGCyr0104402.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson 1913, n. 63, without illustration, whence Sammelbuch 5905; IGCyr 010500 .

Cf. Belzic 2022, catalogue B.54.

Text

Interpretive

Ἀριστόκλεια
Μενεστράτω

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΙΑ
ΜΕΝΕΣΤΡΑΤΩ

French translation

Aristokleia fille de Menestratos.

English translation

Aristokleia daughter of Menestratos.

Italian translation

Aristokleia figlia di Menestratos.

Commentary

The situation of the tomb cannot and will probably never be traced, as modern construction has wholly changed the landscape.

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Cyrene general plan

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