Epitaph

IGCyr085800

Trismegistos ID: 738410

Source Description

Support

White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides, chipped off on both mouldings, especially below; on top, hole and channel for attachment (with mouldings 1.135; 0.63;0.69).

Layout

Inscribed on two lines on front face (0.945; 0.25;0.63).

Letters

0.075; slight serifs, very flat loop of phi, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

First half of the third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : probably from South Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at Cyrene : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 33 n. 2 A, whence SEG , 47.2178, A.

Text

Ἀντίφιλος Εὐκλείδα

Apparatus

French translation

Antiphilos fils d'Eukleidas.

English translation

Antiphilos son of Eukleidas.

Italian translation

Antiphilos figlio di Eukleidas.

Commentary

The base is very similar to IGCyr085900 and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; on that basis, the first editors supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb in the South necropolis.

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