Epitaphs

IGCyr084100

Trismegistos ID: 738395

Source Description

Support

On the front of two rock-cut tombs (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed above and between the entrances (ca. 3 m above ground).

Letters

Rather irregular letters (height unknown), without clear alignment; slanting mu and sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (context)

Findspot

Found in 1996 at Euesperides : Necropolis to the North of the city wall, in front of area L .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996 , p. 142 (dr.), whence SEG , 46.2191.

Text

a
Ἀλεξί̣-[δ?]α̣μος
b
⋮ Ἀριστ(- - -)

Apparatus

A

1 Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996  ΑΛΕΞΙ̣(- - -) (vac.), ΑΡΙΣΤ(- - -)

2 Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996  [Δ]Α̣ΜΟΣ(- - -)

French translation

a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).

English translation

a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).

Italian translation

a) Alexidamos. b) Arist(- - -).

Commentary

It is not easy to interpret those inscriptions which are, as Buzaian and Lloyd say, roughly cut and heavily weathered. They speak of abbreviated personal names and seem to consider that those are three in number. However, to judge from the drawing, the bad alignment between ΑΛΕΞΙ and ΑΡΙΣΤ and the placement of ΑΜΟΣ are in favour of Pleket's assumption (SEG) that Ἀλεξίδαμος should be read on two lines at left, presumably corresponding to the left hand tomb (L83), whereas ΑΡΙΣΤ would be related to the right hand tomb (L87). However, the punctuation before the latter is rather puzzling: is it an awkawrdly placed separation between two areas or might they rather be some holes for fixation?

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