Epitaph

IGCyr085900

Trismegistos ID: 738411

Source Description

Support

White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides and, on top, a hole and channel for attachment; badly broken off at middle of upper moulding and at lower right angle, due to building engines (with mouldings 1.06; 0.64;0.615).

Layout

Inscribed on two lines on front face between the mouldings (0.905; 0.27;0.455).

Letters

0.08; slight serifs, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape, middle-sized loop of rho, omega with wing-shaped serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

First half of 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 B, whence SEG , 47.2178, B.

Text

Θεύδωρος Ἁγησιστράτ[ω]

Apparatus

French translation

Theudôros fils d'Hagèsitratos.

English translation

Theudoros son of Hagesistratos.

Italian translation

Theudoros figlio di Hagesistratos.

Commentary

The base is very similar to IGCyr085800 and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; the first editors thus supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb.

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