Description: A painted mural frieze with mythological figures.
Text: Painted beside several of the figures.
Letters: No measurements
Date: Second to third centuries.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, painted on the interior of tomb N.173.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
i: Psyche. ii: Leda; iii: Akteon; iv: Adonis; v: The Fates; vi: Ganymede.
Commentary
The tomb, originally Hellenistic, was renovated and decorated by the retired soldier Ammonius (C.573).
Bibliography: Santucci, 2010, 279-292, whence SEG 60.1840; discussed Cinalli, 2016, 188-190, figs. 9.3, 9.4. For the tomb see Cassels, 1955 N.173, Thorn, 2009, 69-70
Text constituted from: From publications (Roueché).
Images
None available (2020).