Epitaph

IGCyr025200

Trismegistos ID: 738263

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 234.

Support

Marble base with original mouldings, probably plain, deeply chipped; broken off on right side without any loss from the inscribed part (0.72; 0.40;0.50).

Layout

Inscribed between the mouldings (0.20;0.47); each line centered, with large margins on both sides.

Letters

0.04; deeply cut, but now worn out.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found at an unknown date at Cyrene : Necropolis , probably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 14th, 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 113, n. 96, fig. 52, whence SEG , 9.208. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 138 (probable provenance).

Text

Δαμάνθης Πιθάκω

Apparatus

French translation

Damanthès fils de Pithakos.

English translation

Damanthes son of Pithakos.

Italian translation

Damanthes figlio di Pithakos.

Commentary

The Thorns suggested that the base was found in the Northern Necropolis because it is the only part of the necropoleis that was excavated by the Italian archaeologists.

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