EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0562002
Trismegistos ID:
105920
Source description
Support: Limestone sarcophagus lid (dimensions unknown).
Layout: Inscribed on the rim.
Letters: 0.09; roughly cut.
Date: Fourth century or first half of third century BC (context).
Findspot: Found on April 16th, 1911 by the Norton mission at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, near tomb N 22.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seen by the Thorns before 2006 in situ, in the North Necropolis. Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Robinson 1913, p. 179, n. 50, and Cassels 1955, p. 10, footnote 11, whence SEG, 16.867; Sammelbuch 5898; IGCyr 056200 ➚. Cf. Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 31 (area of discovery).
Text
Apparatus
1: Ἀριστοτέλευ̣ς: Ἀριστοτέλευς Cassels 1955, Thorn – Thorn 2009; Ἀριστοτέλεις Robinson 1913 for Ἀριστοτέλης
French translation
(scil. Tombe) d'Aristotélès.
English translation
(scil. Tomb) of Aristoteles.
Italian translation
(scil. Tomba) di Aristoteles.
Commentary
We have here, as in other funerary mentions on sarcophagi, the name of the deceased at the genitive: he is considered the owner of the sarcopaghus.
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Images
Fig. 1. View of igcyr056200 Epitaph
Maps
Cyrene general plan
Cyrene north necropolis
