Epitaph

IGCyr085200

Trismegistos ID: 738405

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 3002.

Support

Small white marble rectangular base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides (0.41; 0.15;0.245).

Layout

Inscribed on one line between the mouldings (0.37; 0.065;0.225).

Letters

0.023; all vertical strokes very long, small loop of rho, flat loop of phi, sigma with slantering and lightly curved outer strokes, calice-shaped upsilon, smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Brought to the Department of Antiquities in 1956 as coming from 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 , p. 27 n. 3 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2174. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 202 (provenance).

Text

Πολυάρατος Εὔφριος

Apparatus

French translation

Polyaratos fils d'Euphris.

English translation

Polyaratos son of Euphris.

Italian translation

Polyaratos figlio di Euphris.

Commentary

The father's name Euphris is a short form of Euphranor especially common in Cyrenaica.

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