Epitaph

IGCyr009500

Trismegistos ID: 105897

Source Description

Support

White marble stele with simple moulding at top, broken below (1.35; 0.17-;0.05).

Layout

Inscribed.

Letters

0.0075; thin well cut letters; should date before the adoption of the standard alphabet.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Before the end of the fifth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Bought by H.F. De Cou from an Arab on March 26th, 1911 at Cyrene : Necropolis .

Present Location

Seems to be lost.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , p. 164, n. 17 (without illustration), whence Sammelbuch 5875; DGE 231,1.

Text

Ἀριστέας Ἀριμνάστō

Apparatus

French translation

Aristeas fils d'Arimnastos.

English translation

Aristeas son of Arimnastos.

Italian translation

Aristeas figlio di Arimnastos.

Arabic translation

أريستيس بن أريمناستوس.

Commentary

Width 1.35 is given by Robinson, from De Cou's notes. It seems improbable, such grave steles being rather ca. 0.55 broad. It should be an error for height.

From the copy in block-letters, it is difficult to judge of the date. If the last letter is really an omicron, the inscription could still belong to the end of V B.C.

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