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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography , p. 175, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.249; Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 422, n. ii and fig. 257; 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
1 [Π]εῖσι[ς] (read from Thorn's drawing) : Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography [Π]εῖσ[ις] : Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography 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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