Support
White marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on top and below; a hole for attachment in the upper side (complete 0.97; 0.52;0.70).
Layout
Inscribed between the mouldings (0.832; 0.258;0.63).
Letters
0.044-0.058; small omicron and theta, phi with small loop, slightly slanting sigma, light serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1971 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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.
Frigerio, 1997 Frigerio, C., 1997, Un esempio di architettura ellenistica funeraria a Cirene: la tomba S 388, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 51-73 - see in bibliography , p. 65, n. 5, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2170; 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. 274-279 (ph.).
Arthmiadas fils d'Euphranôr.
Arthmiadas son of Euphranor.
Arthmiadas figlio di Euphranor.
A father's name Euphranor is also mentioned on another base from the same tomb (IGCyr084900), the lettering of which is more ancient. The two persons were probably related with a span of one or two generations.
On the other hand, this man might be akin to a contributor mentioned in the list IGCyr065210, col. i, l. 16 with name Arthmiadas, whereas at the following line there is an Euphranor. As often in that list father and son were mentioned together, so that it is tempting to restore their fathers' names respectively as Euphranor and Arthmiadas. Those two would have lived three generations before the present dead.
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