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Epitaphs

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0783002
Trismegistos ID: 738368

Source description

Support: Inside a rock-cut tomb-chamber with IGCyr0781002, IGCyr0782002, and IGCyr0784002 to IGCyr0787002; dimensions not registered.

Layout: Inscribed above the entrance to a loculus.

Letters: Line 1:0.09-0.13; line 2: 0.11.

Date: Third century BC (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 called 'Tomb Farag'. Seen and photographed by J.M. Reynolds in 1970. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Pacho 1827, pl. LXVI.6 whence CIG 5163; SGDI 4864; Farag – Reynolds 1978-1979, p. 232, n. 1.c.3, whence SEG, 37.1679, 3; IGCyr 078300 . Cf. Applebaum 1962,pp. 34-35.

Text

Interpretive

Ἀφενώι
Πέλεα

Diplomatic

ΑΦΕΝΩΙ
ΠΕΛΕΑ

French translation

Aphénô. Péléa.

English translation

Apheno. Pelea.

Italian translation

Aphenò. Pelea.

Commentary

Two women were buried into this loculus.

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