Epitaph

IGCyr084900

Trismegistos ID: 738402

Source Description

Support

White marble base which supported a half-statue, fixed upon it with two circular dowel holes; the base has plain mouldings above and below (complete 1.205; 0.56;0.74).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (1.08; 0.285;).

Letters

0.05-0.096; small omicron, short central bar of epsilon; 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. 4 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2169; Gasperini, 1998 , p. 276, n. 3 (ph.).

Text

Ἀναξιλέα Εὐφράνορος

Apparatus

French translation

Anaxiléa fille d'Euphranôr.

English translation

Anaxilea daughter of Euphranor.

Italian translation

Anaxilea figlia di Euphranor.

Commentary

The same father's name Euphranor can be read on another base from the same tomb (IGCyr085000), the lettering of which is undoubtedly later. There might be a span of one or two generations between both Euphranor and thus between Anaxilea and Arthmiadas.

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