Epitaph of Theupropos

Source Description

Support

A rock-cut tomb, half-buried, with part of one arched door still visible; two large niches on both sides above the door and a small one in the middle, touching the summit of the door-arch; the facade, which had been roughly smoothened, is now badly worn out above, with a large hole at left (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the facade above the entrance, beginning far left (4.00; 0.40;).

Letters

Ll. 1-2 0.15-0.18, but for the second omicron and the third iota (in ligature) of l. 1 (0.06); lunate epsilon, sigma and omega, phi with tall hasta; letters irregularly spaced.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second half of first or first half of second century A.D. (lettering)

Findspot

Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Taucheira pleiades; HGL : Quarry East 3 of Oliverio's grid.

Later recorded Location

Seen by H. de Cou in 1911 in situ.

Last recorded Location

Seen by G. Oliverio before 1935 in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by GVCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors and photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5298, from Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. LXXXVI and p. 404 (Letronne) and Welcker, 1830 Welcker, F.G., 1830, Epigramme, Allgemeine Schulzeitung, 7, ii, 86, 691-692 - see in bibliography and Hermann, 1831 Hermann, G., 1831, Opuscula4, Lipsiae - see in bibliography , pp. 325-326, whence CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5298; Kaibel, 1878 Kaibel, G., 1878, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus conlecta, Berlin - see in bibliography , n. 419; Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , p. 199; Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 201, n. 300, pl. LXXVI.36, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.557; Peek, 1955 Peek, W., 1955, Griechische Vers-Inschriften, I-II, Berlin - see in bibliography , n. 361.

Text

| Θεύπ̣[ροπος] ἐνθάδε κεῖ[τ]αι, ὃ̣ς ἐν πρώτοισ͡ιν ἄριστος | ὀκ[τωκαιδεκ]έτης ἔπλετο [πά]ντα σοφός.

(𐅹 (ἔτους)) [c. 1 - 3] Φ̣αω̣φ̣ι ε̣´.

Apparatus

1 Θεύπ̣[ροπος] : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ΘΕΥΠΕΘΡ[..] (whence Θευπρόπιος Letronne) : Welcker, 1830 Welcker, F.G., 1830, Epigramme, Allgemeine Schulzeitung, 7, ii, 86, 691-692 - see in bibliography , CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Θεύπ[ροπος] : Hermann, 1831 Hermann, G., 1831, Opuscula4, Lipsiae - see in bibliography θευπρόπος (taken as a noun, not as a personal name) : Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography Θεύ[προπος] || κεῖ[τ]αι : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography κε+ [..] : Hermann, 1831 Hermann, G., 1831, Opuscula4, Lipsiae - see in bibliography κε[ῖμαι] : Welcker, 1830 Welcker, F.G., 1830, Epigramme, Allgemeine Schulzeitung, 7, ii, 86, 691-692 - see in bibliography , Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography κεῖ[τ]αι || Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography ὃ̣ς ἐν πρώτοισ͡ιν : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ϹΘΝΕΝΤΟΙϲ͡ιΝ (whence Letronne at p. 404 ὃς ἐν θνητοῖσιν) : Welcker, 1830 Welcker, F.G., 1830, Epigramme, Allgemeine Schulzeitung, 7, ii, 86, 691-692 - see in bibliography ὁ ἐν θνητοῖσιν : Hermann, 1831 Hermann, G., 1831, Opuscula4, Lipsiae - see in bibliography , CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography [ἐὼ]ν ἐν τοῖσιν

2 Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography ἔπλετο [πά]ντα σοφός : Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography ϹΤΙΑΕΤΟΝΤΑϹΟΟΦΟϹ : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography [π]ᾶ[σι πόθη]μα σοφο[ῖ]ς : Kaibel, 1878 Kaibel, G., 1878, Epigrammata graeca ex lapidibus conlecta, Berlin - see in bibliography [π]ᾶ[σιν] ὁ[δῖ]τα σοφός (Letronne's and Welcker's restorations not usefully reproduced here)

3 CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography (𐅹 (ἔτους)) : Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , SEG 9 - see in bibliography [---] || Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography Φ̣αῶ̣φ̣ι : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Ἀ[θὺρ] : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography Φ̣αῶ̣[φι]

French translation

Ci gît Theupropos, qui parfait par excellence atteignit l'âge de dix-huit ans dans une sagesse universelle.

(L'an) [---] , le cinq Phaôphi.

English translation

Here rests Theupropos, who excellent amongst the first reached the age of eighteen years being wise in all matters.

(In year) [---] , the fifth of Phaophi.

Italian translation

Qui giace Theupropos, che eccellente tra i primi raggiunse l'età di diciotto anni, saggio in tutto.

(Nell'anno) [---] , il cinque di Phaophi.

Commentary

For the personal name, Pacho's copy, although inaccurate, records some letters that were completely lost already in 1913 (De Cou's copy, whence Robinson). Of them we can keep the pi and guess that theta is misread for omicron. Welcker's other arguments are more far-fetched, although he was certainly right in restoring the full name Θεύπροπος, for we now know of a Cyrenaean bearing that name honored at Delos and also of two women from Cyrenaica named Θευπρόπα (see Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , p. 222).

Metrical analysis: one elegiac couplet. The final syllable of κεῖται is shortened before vowel, even in the caesura.

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