Description: Marble panel recomposed from two pieces
(w:
0.72 x h:
1.05 x d:
0.04).
Text: Inscribed on one face, within an incised tabella ansata.
Letters: Foiurth-fifth century; 0.035; lunate epsilon and sigma, roughly cut.
Date: Fourth - fifth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Hesychios, in the cistern; found in 1934.
Original location: Presumably from the House of Hesychios.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Greetings, fortunate Hesychios!
Commentary
A favourable acclamation (greetings) and not a sepulcral formula (farewell).
For Hesychios see C.43, C.65, C.749, C.66, C.73. Καλόκερος (= Καλόκαιρος) a name of good omen (see Robert, Hellenica IX, 64.f), is apparently being used as an epithet. Ἡσύχιος, meaning 'tranquil' indicates a clearly related idea in the mind of the name-giver.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 287, note 1, whence SEG 18.752, PHI 324454; mentioned Reynolds, 1980, 150; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 173.3i
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
