Support
Fragment of oblong block with a plain moulding on top (dimensions unknown); a sculpted or drawn figure of 3/4 male body with a large belly is to be seen between the two names.
Layout
Inscribed in one line at left and right of the figure.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (HB).
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5182 (Franz), 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. 63, 6; Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 532.
1
[---] υλλίων : 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
+ΥΜΙΩΝ : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
[Ἐνδ]υμίων [---]
(Franz) : Marengo, 1991
Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography
[---] υλ̣λ̣ίων : Marengo, 1991
Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography
[---] υμ̣ίων
2 Ξην̣[---] : 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
Ξη͡ρ
[---] : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
: Marengo, 1991
Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography
Ξη+
[---]
[---] ylliôn fils de Xèn [---] .
[---] yllion son of Xen [---] .
[---] yllion figlio di Xen [---] .
Both the design of the stone and its position among monumental dedications lead to a dedicatory rather than funerary interpretation of what seems a couple of personal names.
Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 532 cautiously did not keep the former restoration of the very rare and late name Endymion and let open the possibility to read either one mu or two lambdas as first preserved letter of the first name. The latter possibility might lead to read [Θρασ]υλλίων, a name already attested at Cyrene (IGCyr081200, l. 9 and IGCyr084000, l. 43). However no prosopographical clue allows to push this ahead.
For names in Cyrenaica derived with -υλο- and related suffixes, see Masson, 1983 Masson, O., 1983, Notes d'anthroponymie grecque, IV. les deux prêtresses Philylliô (Alexandrie et Cyrène), Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 57, 185-188 - see in bibliography (also Masson, 1990 Masson, O., 1990, Onomastica graeca selecta, I-II, Paris-Nanterre - see in bibliography , 409-412).
The father's name should belong to the group of Ξην(ο)-, for which there exist various suffixes and endings. Reading nu for the third letter seems plausible from Pacho's drawing.
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