Epitaph
IGCyr085300
Trismegistos ID: 738406
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 3368.
Support
White marble stele, slightly tapering, with moulding above on three sides (whole stele 0.4; 0.98;0.22).
Layout
Inscribed on front face (0.31-0.335; 0.92;0.19) at 0.1 under the moulding.
Letters
0.027-0.03; flat and rather small loop of phi, symmetrical nu, slantering sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1978 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from North Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Dobias-Lalou-Gwaider, 1997 Dobias-Lalou, C., Gwaider, R.A., 1997, From the Cemeteries of Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 25-29 - see in bibliography , pp. 27-28 n. 4, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2175 and also Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1997, New funerary incriptions from Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 31-45 - see in bibliography , p. 40 n. 19.
Apparatus
French translation
Phrasôn fils d'Euphris.
English translation
Phrason son of Euphris.
Italian translation
Phrason figlio di Euphris.
Commentary
The father's name Euphris is a short form of Euphranor especially common in Cyrenaica.
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