Epitaph

IGCyr085100

Trismegistos ID: 738404

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 3578.

Support

White marble rectangular base with plain mouldings above and below (base 0.68; 0.31;0.52; without mouldings 0.625; 0.14;0.455); later re-used upside down and recut as a basin.

Layout

Inscribed on the face, each line having the same number of letters, which are vertically aligned so as to from a sort of stoichedon.

Letters

0.04 without serifs; beta with slightly larger upper loop, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found in 1956 at Cyrene : probably East Necropolis (Wadi Graga).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Dobias-Lalou-Gwaider, 1997 , pp. 25-26 n. 1, whence SEG , 47.2172 and Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 36 n. 8. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 202.

Text

Εὐβάτας Ἠριλόχω

Apparatus

French translation

Eubatas fils d'Erilokhos.

English translation

Eubatas son of Erilochos.

Italian translation

Eubatas figlio di Erilochos.

Commentary

This is probably the man with the same name mentioned as a commander of the ephebes in IGCyr084000, dated ca. 340 B.C. He might also be the winner at the Olympian games in 408 and 364 known through Pausanias (6.8.3) without his father's name, but this remains hypothetical.

On the name Erilochos, see Dobias-Lalou, 1994 . Both names were frequently used in the higher society of Cyrene.

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