Epitaph

IGCyr029300

Trismegistos ID: 738284

Source Description

Support

Limestone stele with a pediment (Ghislanzoni) or rather a 'quirkled ovolo' (Thorn), now half-buried in hill-wash (0.32; 0.90; -).

Layout

Inscribed on face.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Hellenistic (monument-type)

Findspot

Found between 1911 and 1914 at Cyrene : North Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by J.C. Thorn before 2005 in situ: North Necropolis , above tomb N240.

Present Location

Never seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 , p. 175, whence SEG , 9.249; Thorn, 2005 , p. 422, n. ii and fig. 257; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 91.

Text

[Π]εῖσι[ς] Δάμιος.

Apparatus

1 [Π]εῖσι[ς] (read from Thorn's drawing) : Thorn, 2005  [Π]εῖσ[ις] : Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915  Πεῖσις

French translation

Peisis fils de Damis.

English translation

Peisis son of Damis.

Italian translation

Peisis figlio di Damis.

Commentary

From Ghislanzoni's explanations (no photograph nor drawing) we gather that the stele was found near a sarcophagus and would have stood on top of its lid.

The stele is now localised by Thorn, who does approve the relation with one of the nearby sarcophagi.

Thorn also mentions another stele standing at the same place: IGCyr029350.

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