Epitaph
IGCyr024000
Trismegistos ID: 738253
Source Description
Support
Limestone base with plain mouldings, partly broken off (0.96; 0.31;0.38).
Layout
Inscribed twice on the face.
Letters
0.035.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 350 and 251 B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : near the small tower of the ancient City Wall , South-East of the former 'Grande Albergo', so possibly brought from the North Necropolis , perhaps neighbouring tombs N 378 or 379 Cassels (but see commentary).
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 111, n. 84 and fig. 40a and b, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.196. Cf. Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 138.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
Parmenon, fils de Nikias, crétois.
English translation
Parmenon, son of Nikias, Cretan.
Italian translation
Parmenon, figlio di Nikias, cretese.
Commentary
The whole text was cut once, erased and cut again, with a small shift from one version to the other, namely the layout of the three names on the two lines. Only the end of the second line was not really erased, although Σ is written lower than the line. This was probably a beginner's test and may have never stood in a tomb. However its bad condition shows that it was re-used for some purpose.
The Thorns duly underline the oddness of limestone as a material for a funerary base; however, they stick to the idea of a relation with a tomb in the vicinity of the findspot.
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