Epitaph of Deinis

IGCyr084200

Trismegistos ID: 738396

Source Description

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 : 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.

Bibliography

Bacchielli, 1996 , p. 28, whence SEG , 46.2210; cf. Gasperini, 1998 , pp. 277-279 (= Gasperini, 2008 , p. 418) and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.622.

Text

Δεῖνις Εὐρυφῶνος

Apparatus

French translation

Deinis fils d'Euryphon.

English translation

Deinis son of Euryphon.

Italian translation

Deinis figlio di Euryphon.

Commentary

The base should have supported a half-statue of the funerary goddess.

For the tomb, see Thorn, 2006 , p. 342 and fig. 217.

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