Epitaph
IGCyr026000
Trismegistos ID: 738269
Source Description
Support
Marble base with plain mouldings, broken off at both lower angles (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
Height unknown; very slight serifs, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : undetermined Necropolis (Oliverio); presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 115, n. 104, fig. 60, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.216. 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. 139.
Apparatus
French translation
Étéarkhos fils de Ménarès.
English translation
Etearchos son of Menares.
Italian translation
Etearchos figlio di Menares.
Commentary
The Thorns' assumption that this base came from the North Necropolis is based upon the fact that the Italian archaeologists before World War II worked only in that part.
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