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 : 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 , pp. 27-28 n. 4, whence SEG , 47.2175 and also Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 40 n. 19.

Text

Φράσων Εὔφριος

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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