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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0789002
Trismegistos ID: 738374

Source description

Support: Tomb-chamber, preceded by a forecourt; three inscriptions inside the chamber above the funerary compartments: this one, IGCyr0788002, and IGCyr0790002; no dimensions.

Layout: Inscribed above the second loculus out of three.

Letters: 0.14.

Date: End of third or beginning of second 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, not identifiable in Cassels' grid.

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. 236, n. 2.b (no image), whence SEG, 37.1680, b; IGCyr 078900 .

Text

Interpretive

Κρατείας

Diplomatic

ΚΡΑΤΕΙΑΣ

French translation

(scil. Tombe) de Kratéia.

English translation

(scil. Tomb) of Krateia.

Italian translation

(scil. Tomba) di Krateia.

Commentary

The tomb, never described before the editio princeps, is mentioned by Thorn 2005, p. 347 as «Said Faraj Tomb B».

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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