Epitaph
IGCyr024500
Trismegistos ID:
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 609.
Support
White marble stele, slightly tapering, with plain moulded cornice on top, of which the right angle is broken off (with moulding 0.29 to 0.30; 0.92;0.28).
Layout
Inscription begins at 0.10 m below moulding (0.265 to 0.30; 0.86;0.26 to 0.29).
Letters
0.028.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL , probably North Necropolis .
Date
Between 325 and 275 B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by H.F. De Cou (Mission Norton) in 1911 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : from the house of Turkish Mudir, in the North Necropolis , perhaps from tomb N241 (Thorn).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , pp. 171-172, n. 36; Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 112, n. 89, fig. 45, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.201. Cf. Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5884; DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 231,4; Applebaum, 1954 Applebaum, S., 1954, The Jews of Cyrenaica and their revolt under Trajan (in Hebrew), Zion19, 23-56 - see in bibliography , pp. 41-54, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 17.812; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 Lüderitz, G., and J.M. Reynolds, 1983, Corpus jüdischer Zeugnisse aus der Cyrenaika (mit einem Anhang von Joyce M. Reynolds), Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des vorderen Orients53, Reihe B, Wiesbaden - see in bibliography , n. 15, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 33.1369; 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. 92.
Apparatus
French translation
Theudôros fils de Iasôn.
English translation
Theudoros son of Iason.
Italian translation
Theudoros figlio di Iason.
Commentary
As the stele was seen by De Cou in 'the house of the Mudir', it might come from the vicinity. The Thorns thus proposed to assign it to Tomb N241.
Applebaum considers this man a Jew, whereas Lüderitz is much more cautious about the question. It should at least be remembered that both names belong to stems that were very popular in Cyrenaean onomastics well before the arrival of Jews in the region. The question should thus remain open.
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