Unfinished epitaph
IGCyr025800
Trismegistos ID: 738267
Source Description
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings on three sides; on top, a shallow hole for attachment of a statue (0.675; 0.275;0.305).
Layout
Inscribed between the mouldings (0.63; 0.14; 0.285;) with both lines beginning on the same vertical line; l. 2 not finished.
Letters
0.045.
Place of Origin
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably North Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in May 30th, 1982 at the modern entrance to the Sanctuary of Apollo .
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. 114, n. 102, fig. 58, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.214. 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. 205 (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. 137.
Apparatus
2 Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography Διοσκο[υρίδου]
French translation
Klenata fille de Diosko〈---〉.
English translation
Klenata daughter of Diosko〈---〉.
Italian translation
Klenata figlia di Diosko〈---〉.
Commentary
At line 2 Oliverio suspected a lacuna, but the line was certainly never finished. It is thus dubious that the base was found in a Necropolis, as said by Oliverio.
For the unfinished father's name there are different possibilities: Διόσκορος and at least three variants of Διοσκουρίδης with different linguistic features.
The Thorns suspected that the base comes from the North Necropolis because it is the only part that was explored by the Italian archaeologists before World War II.
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