Epitaph

IGCyr086500

Trismegistos ID: 738416

Source Description

Support

Left part of a white marble base with plain mouldings, severely damaged above and to the right (0.66-; 0.39-;0.56); on top, a hole with a small channel for attachment.

Layout

Inscribed on the face, between the mouldings (0.62-; 0.22-;).

Letters

0.07; slight serifs; slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of the second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found at an unknown date at Cyrene : 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 , pp. 34-35 n. 4 D (ph.) (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2180, D.

Text

Κριν̣[.....]  Ἀριστ̣ί̣π̣[πω]

Apparatus

1 Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  Κρῖν[ις?]

2 Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  Ἀριστ̣ί̣π̣[που]

French translation

Krin [---]  fils (ou fille ?) d'Aristippos.

English translation

Krin [---]  son (or daughter?) of Aristippos.

Italian translation

Krin [---]  figlio (o figlia?) di Aristippos.

Commentary

The first editors, on the view that the base comes from the same tomb as IGCyr08100 and IGCyr086400, tried to find names common to those epitaphs and retained Κρῖνις as a possible restoration. However, the provenance might not be very clear. Moreover, the careful lettering shows a somewhat earlier date for the present inscription; the spacing of the letters and the place of the hole on top show that the gap was of ca. 5 letters at l. 1.

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