Epitaph
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Second to first centuries BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], n. 102, without illustration, whence [...] 5926; [...], 291 (Morelli, as unpublished, without illustration); [...] 010700. Cf. [...], p. 225, footnote 3; [...], pp. 150-151; [...], p. 81 and fig. 5 (photograph by Bates) and [...], 2000.745, whence [...], 49.2358.

Πολεμίτας Ἡρακλείδα Θεσσαλός

Πολεμίτας[^a1]

[^a1: Πολεμίτας | Πτολεμίτας]

Polemitas fils d'Herakleidas, Thessalien.

Polemitas son of Herakleidas, a Thessalian.

Polemitas figlio di Herakleidas, tessalo.

Dating this stele is difficult because it does not belong to a group of similar inscriptions; the material may explain some differences with the numerous inscriptions of Cyrene; however it is certainly later than the third century suggested in [...] and may be rather compared with another inscription of the newly founded Euesperides IGCyr071100.

New unpublished information, not yet available in [...], was provided by J. Aliqot and J.B. Yon (Hisoma laboratory, Lyon): during his stay at Benghazi in 1895, Clermont-Ganneau had seen the stone and made a squeeze, which is still kept in his archive at the Cabinet du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (Institut de France) in Paris (about Clermont-Ganneau's visit to Cyrenaica, see also [...]).

Uhlenbrock published in 1999 a report written by Bates after his surveying expedition of 1909 to Cyrenaica, which preceded the Norton expedition of 1910-1911. From this paper, kept in the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, we hear that the stele had been found at Salmani, a suburb of Benghazi near the sabkha of the same name near the place of ancient Euesperides, and was kept in the English Vice-consulate of that city. After World War II, this was erroneously brought to the Cyrene Museum.

A transcription of the inscription would have beed joined to the archives of De Cou, the epigraphist of the Norton mission of 1910, giving way to the diplomatic transcription of Robinson.

Morelli republished the inscription as from Cyrene, without identifying it with the publication of Robinson, and the error was detected by Marengo.

For a mention of another Thessalian in Cyrenaica, see IGCyr130600.