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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0779002
Trismegistos ID: 738364

Source description

Support: Southern wall of the forecourt of a rock-cut tomb; dimensions not registered.

Layout: Inscribed on the rock left to the entrance of the tomb-chamber.

Letters: 0.21-0.34.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Seen in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene: funerary complex high on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir, West Necropolis, thus said 'Tomb Farag', forecourt of the Southern tomb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970 in situ, in the West Necropolis. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979, p. 231, n. 1.a, whence SEG, 37.1677; IGCyr 077900 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἁγήσαρχο̣ς

Diplomatic

ΑΓΗΣΑΡΧ.Σ

French translation

Hagèsarkhos.

English translation

Hagesarchos.

Italian translation

Hagesarchos.

Commentary

Possibly the same man as in IGCyr0780002, which was found in the forecourt of the next tomb to the North.

As SEG, 37.1677, points out, both drawings show ΑΓΗΣΑΡΧΩ and the photograph here published for the first time does not help because of some bushes hiding the end of the name; anyway, we prefer to follow Reynolds' transcription.

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