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 : 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 , p. 115, n. 104, fig. 60, whence SEG , 9.216. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 139.

Text

Ἐτέαρχος Μενάρευς

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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