Epitaph
IGCyr026200
Trismegistos ID: 738271
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts (0.92; 0.57;0.55).
Layout
Inscribed. Letters laid out on the whole width (0.78; 0.285;0.475).
Letters
0.05-0.055; slight serifs, omicron as big as other letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis (Oliverio); presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum and again in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
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. 115, n. 106, fig. 62, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.218. 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. 140.
Apparatus
French translation
Karnèdas fils d'Isokratès.
English translation
Karnedas son of Isokrates.
Italian translation
Karnedas figlio di Isokrates.
Commentary
Beschi dated the base in the 1st half of second century B.C., but the lettering seems older (so also Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , pp. 239, 252, following J.M. Reynolds' opinion).
The Thorns assumed that this base might come from the North Necropolis because the Italian archaeologists worked mainly in that sector before World War II.
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