Epitaph

IGCyr027400

Trismegistos ID: 738280

Source Description

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings, partly broken off (0.90; 0.45;0.61).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.055.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Ca 250 B.C. (prosopography, lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1915 at Cyrene : North Necropolis, tomb of the Mnesarchoi (tomb N 171 Cassels).

Last recorded Location

Seen by L. Beschi in 1961 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 117, n. 118, fig. 74, whence SEG , 9.230. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , pp. 181, and fig. 35, 185, 204; Laronde, 1987 , pp. 52-58, whence SEG , 38.1892.

Text

Εὐκλῆς Μνασάρχω

Apparatus

French translation

Euklès fils de Mnasarkhos.

English translation

Eukles son of Mnasarchos.

Italian translation

Eukles figlio di Mnasarchos.

Arabic translation

افكليس بن مناسارخوس

Commentary

Eukles was a member of the prominent family (for which see Laronde, 1987 , pp. 52-58), whose monumental tomb is well known.

Beschi was able to show that the mourning half-figure number 69 of his catalogue stood on this base.

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