Epitaph
IGCyr029350
Trismegistos ID: 738285
Source Description
Support
Limestone stele, surmounted with a 'quirked ovolo' (Thorn), partly buried in the hill-wash (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the face, below the moulding.
Letters
Height unknown; slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Hellenistic (monument-type)
Findspot
Seen and copied by J.C. Thorn before 2005 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , above tomb N240.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
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. i and fig. 257 (mention and drawing); 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
Eukleidas fils d'Euphris.
English translation
Eukleidas son of Euphris.
Italian translation
Eukleidas figlio di Euphris.
Commentary
This stele was seen and drawn by Thorn above tomb N240 along with IGCyr029300, the latter only having been published by Ghislanzoni.
This sort of stele is thought by Thorn to have stood on top of a sarcophagus.
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