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C.570. Funerary inscription, Tomb N.171

Description: Limestone block (w: 1.05 x h: 1.45 x d: 0.25).
Text: Inscribed on one face; each entry in a different hand. The letters of ii retain red paint.
Letters: Probably first-second century CE; i, line 1, 0.045, line 2, 0.04-0.05; ii, lines 1-2 0.035-0.05; iii, line 1 0.05-0.065, line 2, 0.10; iv, 0.08; lunate sigma in i and ii.

Date: Probably first to second centuries.

Findspot: Cyrene: North Necropolis, tomb of the Mnesarchoi, N.171, used to close a loculus in the wall opposite the door in Chamber 4.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Ἰ̣άϲων̣ ⟦Με̣νάρηϲ⟧
( vac. 1 line)
Μνάϲαρχος Ἴασις
ii
Κληνάτα Ἀριϲτοτέλευϲ
( vac. 5) ἱάρεια Ἥρας
iii
Κυδιμάχα θευχρήστω
( vac. 4) ἱάρεια
( vac. 1 line)
iv
Πλήρης

Diplomatic

i
.ΑϹΩ.⟦Μ.ΝΑΡΗϹ⟧
     vacat
ΜΝΑϹΑΡΧΟΣΙΑΣΙΣ
ii
ΚΛΗΝΑΤΑΑΡΙϹΤΟΤΕΛΕΥϹ
          ΙΑΡΕΙΑΗΡΑΣ
iii
ΚΥΔΙΜΑΧΑΘΕΥΧΡΗΣΤΩ
        ΙΑΡΕΙΑ
     vacat
iv
ΠΛΗΡΗΣ

i.1: --υς ? Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936; [----αρης] Cassels, 1955 The marked letters have been erased; the name was perhaps Χενάρης
i.2: Μνάσαρχος (Ἀριστοτέ)λευς Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936
ii: The whole entry was cut partly over i and is rubricated, in order to distinguish it.

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

- di -. Clenata di Aristotile, sacerdotessa; Mnesarco di Aristotile; Cidimaca di Teocresto, sacerdotessa. Completo (il loculo)

English translation

Translation by: Editors

i. Iason ?Menares. Mnasarchos ?(scil. son) of Iasis.

ii. Klenata (scil. daughter) of Aristoteles, priestess of Hera.

iii. Kυdimacha (scil. daughter) of Theochrestos, priestess.

iv. (scil. The tomb is) full.

Commentary

For other inscriptions from this tomb see IGCyr007800, IGCyr027100, IGCyr027200, IGCyr027300, IGCyr027400, IGCyr027500, C.569

iv: For this expression see Robert loc. cit.; again P.J. Sijpestein, ZPE 88 (1991), 24, whence SEG 41.1699.

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 120 (112), pl. LI, fig. 76 (drawing only), whence SEG 9.232, PHI 324082; discussed Robert, 1968, 447; Cassels, 1955, 10 note 13, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1958.540, SEG 16.870, PHI 324355, PHI 324356. Discussed Dobias-Lalou, 2013, 183-4For the tomb see Cassels, 1955, 171, Thorn, 2009, 65-69
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face, i-iii (Reynolds VIII.43)

   Fig. 2. Face, iv (Reynolds VIII.46)