Epitaph
IGCyr007100
Trismegistos ID: 738177
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 608.
Support
White marble stele with upper moulding of eggs and darts chipped off (0.33-0.365; 0.98;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed twice on front face: lines 1 and 4 were cut first; later on, with a rather similar but less careful lettering, lines 2 and 3 were inscribed with the names inverted, so as to give the impression of a repeated text.
Letters
Hand 1 0.017; large omicron, slanting sigma.
Letters
Hand 2 0.022; similar lettering; sigma of line 2 cut lower than the line.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis, tomb N 66, the so-called Kinissieh .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 10th, 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5153, 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. 65, 6 and [Negri] Sardinian consul in Tripoli; SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864 (Blass); Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , p. 195, fig. 40; SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 277 (Morelli), as unpublished.
Text
Apparatus
2 Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography Δένιος : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography [Δε]ίνιος : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography Δίνιος
French translation
Argeios fils de Deinis. Argeios fils de Deinis.
English translation
Argeios son of Deinis. Argeios son of Deinis.
Italian translation
Argeios figlio di Deinis. Argeios figlio di Deinis.
Arabic translation
أرجيوس بن دينيوس. أرجيوس بن دينيوس
Commentary
Lines 2 and 3 seem to be a clumsy attempt to repeat the original cutting.
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