Epitaph

IGCyr086000

Trismegistos ID: 738412

Source Description

Support

White marble tapered stele with a plain moulding on top (0.397 to 0.44; 1.285;0.271 to 0.325).

Layout

Written at least 0.20 under the moulding.

Letters

0.027-0.03; very finely cut and aligned.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1995 at Cyrene : probably from South Necropolis , found in the courtyard of a large rock-cut tomb probably near the group of tombs S 250-260 Cassels («near the modern cemetery of Sidi Mohamed Baggiuda»).

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , pp. 33-34 n. 3 A (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2179, A.

Text

Ἀριστοτέλης Βασιλοκρέοντος

Apparatus

French translation

Aristotélès fils de Basilokréôn.

English translation

Aristoteles son of Basilokreon.

Italian translation

Aristoteles figlio di Basilokreon.

Commentary

Found in the same tomb as IGCyr086100; although there is no common element in the onomastics, both deceased were probably of the same family.

About the name Βασιλοκρέων, see Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623.

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