Christian funerary inscription, Tomb N.83
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Late fourth century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...] LXIII.9 and Letronne, p.395, whence [...], 9136; [...] with fig.3 (heavily touched up); mentioned [...], 6, [...], 1979.656; revised [...], II, whence [...], 1993.700, [...] 42.1675, [...] 1992.1733, [...] 998, [...], 185-186, and fig. 9.2; republished [...], 176.a-b, whence [...], 2004.450, [...] 2005.1650

For the tomb see [...], N.83, [...], 50, with bibliography; mentioned [...], 239.

[...]υμ [...] Θεοδούλου [...] [...]αμεθα [...]αυτην [...]λεξατο [...]ϲονι [...] πάτηρ [...]μεω [...]ϲιϲ [...]

Διμιτρία θυγάτηρ Γάϊου τοῦ ὠνηϲαμένου τὸ μνημῖον τοῦτο ἔνθαδε κῖτε μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτῆϲ Θεωδούλου· οὗτοι ἐτελεύτηϲαν ἐπὶ ἀγροῦ Μυροπῶλα ϲιϲμοῦ γενομένου· τέθικαν αὐτὸϲ Κάλλιπποϲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆϲ κὲ υἱὸϲ αὐτοῦ Γάϊοϲ κὲ γαμβρεόϲ αὐτοῦ Πολύβουλοϲ Κύριε μνηϲθήτω τὸν ἐντὸϲ ϲπελέου τούτου.

Apparatus

Translations

[1992]: ii: Dimitria, fille de Gaios, lui qui a acquis ce monument, repose ici avec son fils Théodoulos; ceux-ci sont morts dans le domaine de Myropolas lors d'un tremblement de terre; Kallippos son mari, Gaios son fils et son gendre Polyboulos les ont déposés. Seigneur, souviens-toi de ceux qui reposent dans cet hypogée.

[2005]: ii: Dimitria, fille de Gaius qui a acheté ce monument, repose ici avec son fils Théodoulos. Ils périrent sur le domaine de Myropolas lors d'un tremblement de terre. C'est Kallippos en personne, son mari, qui les a ensevelis avec son fils Gaius et son gendre Polyboulos. Que le Seigneur se souvienne de celui qui repose en ce caveau.

i: [not usefully translatable]

ii: Dimitria daughter of Gaius, who bought the tomb, lies here with her son Theodoulos; they died on the farm Myropylas, in an earthquake. Kallippos himself, her husband buried them and his son Gaius and his brother-in-law Polyboulos. Lord, remember those within this cave.

Commentary

A family tree may be constructed as follows: Gaios, the father, had Polyboulos and Demetria as son and daughter. She married Kallippos, and with him she gave birth to Theodoulos and Gaios.

b: Lines 2-3: An interesting light on the history of a re-used tomb.

Line 6: Either the name of an estate or possibly a district of Cyrene - the Perfumers' Quarter.

Lines 6-7. Prossibly but not necessarily to be identified with the earthquake of 365 described by Ammianus Marcellinus, XXVI 10.15 and Libanius, Or. XVIII.291; so [...], 45-48, whence SEG XXXVIII.1902.

Line 9: γαμβρός might mean son-in-law, brother-in-law or father-in-law; the third meaning is inappropriate here, and of the other two, brother-in-law seems the more probable.

Line 11: ΚΕ, presumably for Κ(ύρι)ε , but there is no superscript bar and it may be preferable to take it as κὲ = καί.