Epitaph

IGCyr025900

Trismegistos ID: 738268

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings on three sides (0.605; 0.245;0.45).

Layout

Inscribed on the face quite near the upper moulding (0.55; 0.095;0.42).

Letters

0.03.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found, as said by L. Beschi, at Cyrene : Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 near the modern entrance to the Sanctuary of Apollo and again in 1997 in Shahat : outside Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 114, n. 103, fig. 59, whence SEG , 9.215. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 200 and fig. 55 (discovery), p. 204 (date of the base).

Text

Θράσων Ἠρινόου.

Apparatus

French translation

Thrasôn fils d'Erinoos.

English translation

Thrason son of Erinoos.

Italian translation

Thrason figlio di Erinoos.

Commentary

This is probably one of the oldest epitaphs with the genitive -ου in koine.

Beschi shows an archive photograph proving that the base was found in the same undefined tomb as IGCyr026800 and the mourning half-figure n. 7 of his catalogue, although the latter matches none of the bases.

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