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
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 113, n. 94, fig. 50, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.206. Cf. 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. 141.
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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