Epitaph

IGCyr085500

Trismegistos ID: 738407

Source Description

Support

White marble base with egg and dart mouldings on three sides above (and probably also below when complete); on top, circular hole and channel for attachment; worn out below on the whole width and moreover recently scratched on the upper right part and broken off at lower right angle, due to construction engines (complete base 0.89; 0.38;0.57).

Layout

Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.795; 0.165;0.40).

Letters

0.05-0.055.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1995 at Cyrene : probably from South Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 at Cyrene : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , pp. 32-33 n. 1 A, whence SEG , 47.2177, A. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 266.

Text

Ἀνδρίας Ἀναξίππ̣[ω]

Apparatus

2 Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  Ἀναξίπ[π]ω

French translation

Andrias fils d'Anaxippos.

English translation

Andrias son of Anaxippos.

Italian translation

Andrias figlio di Anaxippos.

Commentary

This base comes from the same tomb, unrecorded by Cassels, as IGCyr085600 and IGCyr085700 and was found during construction works in the new town of Shahat.

As supposed by the editors, the three bases seem to mention men belonging to four generations in the same family.

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