Epitaph
IGCyr025500
Trismegistos ID: 738265
Source Description
Support
Marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts (0.62; 0.42;0.44).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.042.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis (Oliverio): presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 114, n. 99, fig. 55, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.211. Cf. Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , p. 204 (date of the base); 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. 140.
Apparatus
French translation
Dioskouridès fils de Drimakos.
English translation
Dioskourides son of Drimakos.
Italian translation
Dioskourides figlio di Drimakos.
Commentary
The deceased's name has a non-dialectal form and his father's name is not attested elsewhere in Cyrenaica. So this family shows some influences from abroad.
The Thorns attributed this base to the North Necropolis on the assumption that the Italian archaeologists worked only in that part of the necropoleis before World War II.
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