Epitaph
IGCyr025100
Trismegistos ID: 738262
Source Description
Repository
Sculpture Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Small white marble stele, slightly tapering, with plain moulding on top; upper left corner broken off (0.33-0.37; 0.90;0.21-0.22; with moulding: 0.40).
Layout
Inscribed 0.10 under moulding.
Letters
0.03.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in May 26th, 1979 in Shahat : in front of ancient Sculpture 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. 95, fig. 51, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.207. 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
Philarkhos fils de Philoklès.
English translation
Philarchos son of Philokles.
Italian translation
Philarchos figlio di Philokles.
Commentary
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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