Epitaph

IGCyr084800

Trismegistos ID: 738401

Source Description

Support

White marble base which supported a stele surmounted by a capital; base with eggs and darts mouldings above and below (complete 1.05; 0.558;0.72).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.87; 0.191;) in two lines beginning near the left edge.

Letters

0.045-0.06; omicron is smaller at l. 1 than at l. 2; slanting sigma; epsilon with shorter central bar; slight serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1971 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S 388 Cassels.

Last recorded Location

Studied in 1972 by Gasperini in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Frigerio, 1997 , p. 64, n. 3 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2168; Gasperini, 1998 , pp. 274-279 (ph.).

Text

Νέβριχος (vac.) Ἀριστοτέλευς

Apparatus

French translation

Nebrikhos fils d'Aristotélès.

English translation

Nebrichos son of Aristoteles.

Italian translation

Nebrichos figlio di Aristoteles.

Commentary

Gasperini suggested that this man was the father of Mnasistrata (IGCyr084600) and of Aristoteles son of Nebrichos (IGCyr084700). For the latter relation, alternate name and father's name inside the same tomb is a very strong argument and the lettering of the present inscription, which seems somewhat older, induces to place both men in the above said chronology.

On the name Νέβριχος see Dobias-Lalou, 2010 , pp. 98-99.

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