Epitaph

IGCyr023900

Trismegistos ID: 738252

Source Description

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings (0.53; 0.21;0.355).

Layout

Inscribed on the face (0.495; 0.09;0.34), the beginning of the lines aligned along the left margin.

Letters

0.02; without serifs, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : North Necropolis , unidentified tomb.

Later recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 near entrance to Apollo's sanctuary .

Last recorded Location

Seen again by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 111, n. 83 and fig. 39, whence SEG , 9.195. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 204 (date).

Text

Δαμοκράτης Ἑλλοοίκω

Apparatus

French translation

Damokrates fils d'Hellooikos.

English translation

Damokrates son of Hellooikos.

Italian translation

Damokrates figlio di Hellooikos.

Commentary

The personal name Ἑλλόοικος is very rare. The only other known instance occurs at Kourion on Cyprus, where we have both this form in koine (in alphabetic script) and the dialectal form (in syllabic writing) e-lo-wo-i-ko-se. In both places the original initial aspiration is no longer preserved, so that there is no reason to split both instances into two entries ( contra Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 150).

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