Epitaph

IGCyr025000

Trismegistos ID: 738261

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble tapering stele, chipped at top and broken off (or cut off ?) at the right upper angle; a wreath is sculpted high on front face (0.36 to 0.42; 1.25;0.27-0.32).

Layout

L. 2 is inscribed in the middle of the wreath (diameter 0.14) and wholly inside it at line 2, while l. 1 has its first letter beyond the limits of the wreath.

Letters

0.02-0.025.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1933 at Cyrene : Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps from North Necropolis (Thorn).

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 113, n. 94, fig. 50, whence SEG , 9.206. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 141.

Text

(vac. 1)πιγένης Εὐβάτα

Apparatus

French translation

Epigenes fils d'Eubatas.

English translation

Epigenes son of Eubatas.

Italian translation

Epigenes figlio di Eubatas.

Commentary

The same man might be the honorand of IGCyr065700.

The Torns' suggestion that the stele might come from the North Necropolis is based upon the idea that Italian excavations before World War II took place only in that Necropolis.

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