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Epitaphs

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0781002
Trismegistos ID: 738366

Source description

Support: Inside a rock-cut tomb-chamber with IGCyr0782002 to IGCyr0787002; dimensions not registered.

Layout: Inscribed above the entrance to a loculus.

Letters: Line 1:0.1-0.11; line 2: 0.08-0.1: line 3: 0.13; at line 1, alpha with dropped bar and non-slanting sigma; at line 2, lunate epsilon and sigma.

Date: Second century BC and later (lettering).

Findspot: Copied in 1825 by J.-R. Pacho at Cyrene.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen and copied by S. Applebaum between 1943 and 1945. The tomb was rediscovered in 1969 by S. Farag of the Department of Antiquities on the W. side of the Wadi Bel Ghadir, West Necropolis, thus so-called 'Tomb Farag'. Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970 in situ. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editors.

Bibliography

Pacho 1827, pl. LXVI.6 whence CIG 5163; SGDI 4864; Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979, p. 232, n. 1.c.1, whence SEG, 37.1679, 1; IGCyr 078100 . Cf. Applebaum 1962, pp. 34-35.

Text

Interpretive

Μνασιστράτα
Δωριεύς
(vac. 2) Φερώι

Diplomatic

ΜΝΑΣΙΣΤΡΑΤΑ
ΔΩΡΙΕΥΣ
    ΦΕΡΩΙ

Apparatus

1: Μνασιστράτα Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979: Μνασιστρ̣ά̣τα CIG; ΜΝΑΣΙΣΙΛΤΑ Pacho 1827

2: Δωριεύς Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979: [.]ωριευς Applebaum 1962; Ἀσοριεύς CIG; ΑΣΟΡΙΕΥΣ Pacho 1827

3: Φερώι SGDI, Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979: ΦΕΙΩ CIG; ΦΕΙΩΙ Pacho 1827; Applebaum 1962 this line not mentioned

French translation

Mnasistrata. Dôrieus. Phérô.

English translation

Mnasistrata. Dorieus. Phero.

Italian translation

Mnasistrata. Dorieus. Pherò.

Commentary

Line 2 was added later on, as shown by the lettering.

The woman's name Φερώι was rightly guessed from Pacho's copy by Hiller von Gärtringen for Blass in SGDI, as already mentioned by Masson 1967, p. 227, footnote 12, which was ignored by Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979. We have now three further occurrences of this name in Cyrene.

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