Epitaph
IGCyr024800
Trismegistos ID: 738260
Source Description
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings (0.45; 0.35;0.35).
Layout
Inscribed on front face under the upper moulding.
Letters
0.04
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 113, n. 92, fig. 48 , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.204. 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 (possible provenance).
Apparatus
French translation
Telesô fille de Sosias.
English translation
Teleso daughter of Sosias.
Italian translation
Telesò figlia di Sosias.
Commentary
Teleso might be sister of Philon (IGCyr024700): 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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