Epitaph
IGCyr027800
Trismegistos ID: 738282
Source Description
Support
Marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts above and below (0.72; 0.42;0.40).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.04; very slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of third or beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , tomb N 173, to the right of the entrance.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 118, n. 122, fig. 78a, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.234. Cf. Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 21; 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 , pp. 199, 204 (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. 69 (Cassels' notebook); Santucci-Reynolds, 2010 Santucci, A. (with a note by J.M. Reynolds), 2010, Monumentum est quod memoriae servandae gratia existat (Ulp., Ad Edict. 11, 7, 42): la tomba del Veterano Ammonio nella necropoli nord di Cirene ed il suo ciclo pittorico, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene nell'antichità. Un cinquantennio di attività a Cirene della Missione Archeologica Italiana dell'Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Monografie di archeologia libica29, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica2, Roma, 279-293 - see in bibliography , pp. 279-280 and fig. 4a (location).
Apparatus
French translation
Satyros fils de Protarkhos.
English translation
Satyros son of Protarchos.
Italian translation
Satyros figlio di Protarchos.
Commentary
Satyros son of Protarchos should have been the first to be buried in that tomb. The original funerary half-figure was later substituted by a stele for a deceased veteran (IRCyr C.574).
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