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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 113, n. 96, fig. 52, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.208. 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. 138 (probable provenance).
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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