Epitaph
IGCyr026100
Trismegistos ID: 738270
Source Description
Support
Marble base with plain mouldings, surface eroded, mouldings slightly chipped (0.52; 0.35;0.41).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.05.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis (Oliverio); possibly 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. 105, fig. 61, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.217. 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 (possible location).
Apparatus
French translation
Spoudias fils de Stéphanitas.
English translation
Spoudias son of Stephanitas.
Italian translation
Spoudias figlio di Stephanitas.
Commentary
The Thorns' probable attribution to the North Necropolis is due to the fact that the Italian archaeologists before World War II were mainly interested by this one.
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