Description: Rock-cut tomb, with B.54
on the façade, B.56, B.57, B.58,
B.59, B.60, B.61,
B.62, B.63, B.64,
B.65, B.66. B.67,
B.68 on the interior walls.
Text: Inscribed on an internal wall.
Letters: No description
Date: Hellenistic or early Roman
Findspot:
Berenike,
Ain es-Selmani; recorded in 1860.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1860).
Apparatus
Crowe reported APΠIAXEIOC/Α ΓΕΑΟΧΑΕEnglish translation
Translation by: Editors
(i.e. Tomb) of Aripachthis.
(i.e. Tomb) of Agelocha
Commentary
For the tomb see Bailey, art. cit.
The name of the builder of the tomb (B.54, B.57 B.68), Aripachthis is of Libyan origin; it was used alongside Greek names, reflecting the mixed ethnic roots of the family’s native city (Berenike rather than Euhesperides).
Bibliography: Copied by F.H. Crowe in 1860, whence Bailey, 1988, 92 and fig. 5, whence Reynolds, 2002, 3 whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.439, SEG 52.1822
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).