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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 112, n. 91, fig. 47, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.203. 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. 139 (probable provenance).
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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