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, within a rectangular frame.
Letters: No description
Date: Hellenistic or early Roman
Findspot:
Berenike,
Ain es-Selmani; recorded in 1860.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Apparatus
Crowe's drawing shows:ΑΓIΠΑ
ΧΘΙΕΠ
ΑΝΚΙΑ
ΤΙΔΑ
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Aripachthis (scil. son) of Pankratidas
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, 14 whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.439, SEG 52.1833
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).