Private honors with artist's signature
IGCyr065700
Trismegistos ID: 738345
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Right lower angle of a blackish marble base already broken at upper right angle and at left when found (0.66; 0.31;0.4); later broken into four fragments.
Layout
Inscribed in one line near the upper rim and in a second line in much smaller characters below.
Letters
Line 1: 0.035; line 2: 0.015; no serifs, short middle bar of epsilon, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1926 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably the agora .
Last recorded Location
Seen by Emilio Rosamilia in 2010 in Shahat , Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (E.R.).
Bibliography
Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , p. 31, n. 12, fig. 23 (from †Oliverio's papers), and Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1962.363, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.743; Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , n. 2. Cf. Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography , p. 157 (mention of the find).
Apparatus
French translation
Épigénès fils d'Eub[atas?].
Oeuvre de [---] fils de Démétrios.
English translation
Epigenes son of Eub[atas?].
Made by [---] son of Demetrios.
Italian translation
Epigenes figlio di Eub[atas?].
Opera di [---] figlio di Demetrios.
Commentary
Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography mentioned this base without publishing it as 'coming, as it seems, from the Agora'. He was publishing there inscriptions found in 1925 in the Sanctuary of Apollo and his paper belongs to the issue of April 1927, so that he wrote it probably at the end of 1926 or the very beginning of 1927. The present base would have been known to him but not fully studied at the time.
Owing to the similarity of lettering with the epitaph IGCyr025000 the proposed restoration of the names at line 1 seems rather plausible, although other personal names beginning with Εὐβ- do exist.
We have here only at the nominative the name of the man featured in the statue that originally stood on the base. If the honors emanated from the city, this mention would not be missing. It is thus more plausible that a private citizen was responsible for the monument but did not want to let it known (the same at IGCyr065800).
As pointed by Rosamilia, the name of the sculptor's father has no dialectal form and this might be a clue for a foreigner. However, it would be somewhat surprising that his origin would not be mentioned.
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