Epitaph

IGCyr024900

Trismegistos ID: 105924

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base with double plain mouldings; lower right angle missing (0.80; 0.35;0.58).

Layout

Inscribed between the mouldings (0.77; 0.125;0.50).

Letters

0.04.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found by the Norton mission in 1911 at Cyrene : Necropolis , perhaps 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 by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 8th, 2001 in the new Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , pp. 179-180, n. 55, fig. 37; Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 113, n. 93, fig. 49, whence SEG , 9.205. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 138 (probable provenance).

Text

Ἐπιτέλης Λύσιος

Apparatus

2 Oliverio, 1933-1936  Λύσιος : Robinson, 1913  Λυσίο<υ>

French translation

Epitelès fils de Lysis.

English translation

Epiteles son of Lysis.

Italian translation

Epiteles figlio di Lysis.

Commentary

Robinson had no information about the provenance. This seems to show that the base was found in situ by De Cou in 1911. As the Norton mission does not seem to have explored other parts of the necropoleis, the Thorns supposed that the provenance is the North Necropolis and it is probably so.

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