Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base with plain mouldings, broken at top; rough at the back; (with mouldings 0.89; 0.32; -; without mouldings 0.815; 0.132; -).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings.
Letters
0.02-0.032, well cut letters; epsilon with short middle stroke, omicron smaller than the other letters, four-strokes sigma, open omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 250 B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1972 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S381A Cassels, in the small atrium leading to the funerary rooms.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1972 by Gasperini in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bacchielli, 1996 Bacchielli, L., 1996, La tomba di Thanathos nella necropoli Sud di Cirene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt), n.s. 2, 27-30 - see in bibliography , p. 28, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2210; cf. Gasperini, 1998 Gasperini, L., 1998, Novità epigrafiche dal settore meridionale della necropoli di Cirene, in E. Catani, S.M. Marengo (eds.), La Cirenaica in età antica: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Macerata, 18-20 Maggio 1995, Ichnia1, Pisa-Roma, 273-279 [= , 407-418] - see in bibliography , pp. 277-279 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 418) and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1999.622.
Deinis fils d'Euryphon.
Deinis son of Euryphon.
Deinis figlio di Euryphon.
The base should have supported a half-statue of the funerary goddess.
For the tomb, see Thorn, 2006 Thorn, J.C., 2006, Drawings by Beechey in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 285-304 - see in bibliography , p. 342 and fig. 217.
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