Epitaph
IGCyr026600
Trismegistos ID: 738275
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 247.
Support
Limestone small tapering stele, broken below (0.20 to 0.21; 0.26;0.06 to 0.07); above a preserved moulding (width 0.24) there was probably a pediment, now lost.
Layout
Inscribed with well centered lines just under the moulding.
Letters
0.02-0.03; irregular letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably North Necropolis , perhaps tomb N240.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 16th, 1976 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. 110, fig. 66, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.222. 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. 91.
Apparatus
French translation
Kallistratos fils de Simylos.
English translation
Kallistratos son of Simylos.
Italian translation
Kallistratos figlio di Simylos.
Arabic translation
كاليستراتوس بن سيميلوس
Commentary
About the provencance, Oliverio only mentioned 'Necropolis'. Thorn, for all those published by Oliverio in the years 1930 thought that it should be the North Necropolis, on the assumption that only that Necropolis was explored by the Italian teams of the time. Moreover, about the present stele, Thorn noticed that «it recalls two others (here IGCyr029300 and IGCyr029350) in situ above Tomb N.240 and may belong to a cluster of sarcophagi nearby». As we could not trace the two others, we cannot discuss this point.
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