Epitaph

IGCyr025700

Trismegistos ID: 105932

Source Description

Support

Marble base; on three sides, double mouldings of eggs and darts, chipped all around; top left and lower right angles broken away; hole and canal on top for attaching a statue (0.51; 0.34;0.33).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.465; 0.15;0.32); well centered letters.

Letters

0.03, deeply cut.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1911 by the Norton mission at Cyrene : Necropolis ; presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou οn June 16th, 2010 at the moderne entrance to the Sanctuary of Apollo .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , p. 183, n. 67 (without illustration), whence Sammelbuch 5910; Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 114, n. 101, fig. 57, whence SEG , 9.213. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 140.

Text

Εὔβωλος Ἀπολλοδώρω

Apparatus

French translation

Eubolos fils d'Apollodoros.

English translation

Eubolos son of Apollodoros.

English translation

Eubolos figlio di Apollodoros.

Commentary

Beschi, 1970 , p. 205, puts this base in a group dated to the 1st half of the second century B.C. This is impossible in view of the lettering (see also "IV/III" in Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 172 from J.M. Reynolds' opinion).

Robinson gave no information about the provenance. Oliverio only said that it came from one necropolis. The Thorns' assumption that it was the Northern one may be due to the fact that the Norton mission had its camp in that very part of the necropoleis.

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