Epitaph

IGCyr026300

Trismegistos ID: 738272

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base with double mouldings that are chipped on all sides (0.485; 0.37;0.41).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.435; 0.24;0.40).

Letters

0.03-0.035; serifs; phi very small loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1933 at Cyrene : Necropolis (Oliverio), perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : in front of ancient Sculpture Museum and again in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 115, n. 107, fig. 63, whence SEG , 9.219. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 205(date of the base): Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 140 (possible provenance).

Text

Πολυκλῆς Φίλωνος

Apparatus

French translation

Polykles fils de Philôn.

English translation

Polykles son of Philon.

Italian translation

Polykles figlio di Philon.

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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