Epitaph

IGCyr024700

Trismegistos ID: 738259

Source Description

Repository

Sculpture Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings, the lower one being partly chipped at both angles (0.47; 0.275;0.33).

Layout

Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.47; 0.41;0.33).

Letters

0.025

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : Necropolis (Oliverio); probably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Later recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou before 1979 in Shahat : in front of ancient Sculpture Museum .

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 112, n. 91, fig. 47, whence SEG , 9.203. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 139 (probable provenance).

Text

Φίλων Σωσία

Apparatus

French translation

Philon fils de Sôsias.

English translation

Philon son of Sosias.

Italian translation

Philon figlio di Sosias.

Commentary

Philon might be brother of Teleso (IGCyr024800): both bases, published together and very similar, should come from the same tomb.

The Thorns' probable attribution to the North Necropolis is due to the fact that the Italian archaeologists before World War II were mainly interested in this one.

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