Epitaph

IGCyr026500

Trismegistos ID: 738274

Source Description

Support

Limestone stele with pediment in shape of a naiskos, keeping remains of colors at the time of discovery (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the architrave, just under the pediment.

Letters

Height unknown; not very careful lettering.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of second or beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

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

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team and possibly lost.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 115, n. 109, fig. 65, whence SEG , 9.221. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 143.

Text

Εὔκλεια Κρύτονος

Apparatus

French translation

Eukleia fille de Krytôn.

English translation

Eukleia daughter of Kryton.

Italian translation

Eukleia figlia di Kryton.

Arabic translation

إفكليا بنة كريتون

Commentary

The placement of the inscription, careless lettering and erroneous omicron for omega in the second syllable are clues for a possible re-use.

The Thorns' suggestion that the stele might come from the North Necropolis is based upon the idea that Italian excavations before World War II took place only in that Necropolis.

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