Epitaph

IGCyr086200

Trismegistos ID: 738414

Source Description

Support

White marble lightly tapering stele, broken on top and below (0.44 to 0.45; -;0.26 to 0.28).

Layout

Inscribed on front face, about 0.18 under the broken off top.

Letters

0.026; rho with small loop, sigma nearly not slantering.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found about 1980 at Cyrene : South Necropolis (see commentary).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1985 in Cyrene : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , pp. 34-35 n. 4 A (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2180, A.

Text

Ἀστυκλῆς Βαρκαίω

Apparatus

French translation

Astyklès fils de Barkaios.

English translation

Astykles son of Barkaios.

Italian translation

Astykles figlio di Barkaios.

Commentary

The stele, collected about 1980 from the South Necropolis, is thought by Mohamed and Reynolds to come from the tomb where a rock-cut cut inscription (IGCyr008100) mentions a Βαρκαῖος Ἀστυκλεῦς. If so, the lettering of the stele seems to be somewhat older than that on the wall.

From the same tomb are also IGCyr086400 and IGCyr086500.

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