Epitaph

IGCyr086100

Trismegistos ID: 738413

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base with mouldings of egg and dart above and below, chipped and broken off at right end of front face (0.75; 0.44;0.57).

Layout

Inscribed on front face in two lines with letters spaced symmetrically along vertical axis.

Letters

0.04; finely cut and ; very light serifs; rather small loop of pi, smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found 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»).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

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

Text

Πρατομήδη[ς] Ἀγώνιος̣

Apparatus

French translation

Pratomèdès fils d'Agônis.

English translation

Pratomedes son of Agonis.

Italian translation

Pratomedes figlio di Agonis.

Commentary

Found in the same tomb as IGCyr086000; although there is no common element in the onomastics, both deceased were probably of the same family.

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