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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1227002
Trismegistos ID: 738776

Source description

Support: Rock-cut tomb with at least 7 loculi (or possibly two adjacent tombs), (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed above the door of loculus 3 from the left, on the lintel.

Letters: Height unknown; shapes too difficult to describe from the photograph.

Date: Presumably Hellenistic (context).

Findspot: Copied and photographed by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene: North Necropolis, tomb N295.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.C. Thorn before 2001 in situ in the North Necropolis. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from mention and photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 103; IGCyr 122700 . Cf. Cassels 1955, p. 29.

Text

Interpretive

Σωστράτου

Diplomatic

ΣΩΣΤΡΑΤΟΥ

French translation

(scil. Tombe) de Sôstratos.

English translation

(scil. Tomb) of Sostratos.

Italian translation

(scil. Tomba) di Sostratos.

Commentary

Cassels in his 1955 publication only mentioned the presence of inscriptions. From his archive, the Thorns were able to recover a copy and a large scale photograph, which does not help much. They also were able to check the layout and reading of this inscription and of two others from the same tomb (see IGCyr1225002 and IGCyr1226002).

About the name at the genitive, see commentary at IGCyr1226002.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene north necropolis

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