Funerary genealogy, Tomb S.4
created: From previous publications (Reynolds)
source date: First to second centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], VII, from which, and from a copy made in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian consul in Tripoli, [...], 5147, whence [...], 4859; recorded in a painting by Porcher (1861), BM catalogue 1865,0208,633, on which [...], 197; republished from a copy and squeeze by A.Laronde [...].

For the tomb, [...], S.4, [...], 206-7

Κλέαρχος Κλεάρχω, Κλέαρχος Κλεάρχω, Κλέαρχος Παρευβάτα, Παρευβάτας Φιλοξένω υ, Φιλόξενος Καλλίππω υ, Κάλλιππος Ἀλεξιμάχω υ, Ἀλεξίμαχος Ἀλαδδειρος, Ἀλαδδειρ Βάττω

Translations

Klearchos son of Klearchos; klearchos son of Klearchos; Klearchos son of Pareubatas; Pareubatas son of Philoxenos; Philoxenos son of Kallippos; Kallippos son of Aleximachos; Aleximachos son of Aladdeir; Aladdeir son of Battos.

Commentary

The genealogy is carefully constructed to assert descent from two men - Aalddeir and Battos - with names which, as Masson puts it, evoke the ancient dynasties of Cyrenaica.